The Appeal Court has overturned a lower court ruling and found a 32-year-old man guilty of royal defamation for throwing paint at a portrait of King Vajiralongkorn at an expressway entrance in Nonthaburi’s Pak Kret District.

Activist and conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal has been indicted for draft evasion for protesting military conscription by refusing to participate in the draft in April 2024.

The Supreme Administrative Court has ordered the former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht in damages following her administration’s rice pledging scheme.

Representatives from the three armed forces, the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC), the Ministry of Defence, and the Royal Thai Police were called on 1 May to explain their involvement in Information Operations (IOs) that have targeted Thailand’s own citizens. The Thai security apparatus has been under the spotlight following a series of allegations.

The Supreme Court has sentenced a 28-year-old man from Sa Kaeo province to one year and six months in prison on a royal defamation charge filed against him for commenting on a picture of King Vajiralongkorn posted in the monarchy reformist Facebook group Royalist Marketplace.

Former senator Jon Ungphakorn, a social activist and Prachatai founder, passed away in his residence at the age of 77.

In the Asia-Pacific region, press freedom and access to reliable news sources are severely compromised by the predominance of regimes — often authoritarian — that strictly control information, often through economic means. In many countries, the government has a tight grip on media ownership, allowing them to interfere in outlets’ editorial choices. It is highly telling that twenty of the region’s 32 countries and territories saw their economic indicators drop in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index.

The public prosecutor has decided not to indict US academic Dr Paul Chambers on charges of royal defamation and violation of the Computer Crimes Act.

9 pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to two years and ten months in prison for trespassing and other charges resulting from a 2023 protest they staged in front of the Samran Rat Police Station to demand the release of a 15-year-old activist. They were later allowed bail.

The Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) has answered questions about its royal defamation complaint against the US academic Dr Paul Chambers over a blurb on the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute website.

A 27-year-old pro-democracy activist has been sentenced to two years in prison for royal defamation over a Facebook post made in 2022.

Two lecturers and a former student of Chiang Mai University have been acquitted of charges relating to an incident in October 2021, when students took over the University Art Centre after the Faculty of Fine Arts and the university administration prohibited them from showing their final theses.