A graduate student has been sentenced to three years in prison, with a 2-year suspension, for royal defamation over distributing books containing protest speeches related to monarchy reform in 2021.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (28 August) dismissed a royal defamation charge filed against a mentally ill woman for social media posts about members of the royal family, but found her guilty of violation of the Computer Crimes Act and gave her a suspended sentence of 2 years in prison.

The Civil Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the police by a protester allegedly beaten while in custody at Din Daeng Police Station in 2021, citing insufficient evidence.

After its executive board decided to remove the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) from the government coalition, the Pheu Thai Party yesterday (28 August) invited the Democrat Party to join.

The ruling Pheu Thai Party has decided to remove the military-backed Palang Pracharat Party (PPRP) from its new coalition government.

A 33-year-old protester has been sentenced to approximately 12 years without parole for 8 Facebook posts in 2022.

Last Friday (22 August), a little over two months before the statute of limitations expire on 25 October, the Narathiwat Provincial Court accepted a lawsuit filed by the families of those killed in the Tak Bai Massacre against officials involved in the incident. 

A Constitutional Court judge has come under public criticism for joking about the dissolution of Move Forward Party (MFP), prompting calls that he be subject to an ethics investigation.

The Phalang Pracharat Party (PPRP) appears to have broken into two factions after party leader Gen Prawit Wongsuwan said that Thamanat Prompao, the Party’s Secretary-General and Caretaker Agriculture Minister, will not be given a seat in the cabinet of new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Thamanat subsequently threatened to leave the party and to take a number of MPs with him.

ThaiPBS and the Thai Journalists Association have requested an ethics investigation of Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, Palang Pracharat Party leader and MP, after he slapped a ThaiPBS reporter last Friday (16 August).

Following the dissolution of the Move Forward Party (MFP) for campaigning to amend the royal defamation law, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) condemned the ruling as undemocratic and raised concerns that the ruling could prevent the political system from adapting and responding to change in society.

27 student groups and civil society organizations issued a statement last week condemning the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of former Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin as a “silent coup.”