Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pleaded not guilty to a royal defamation charge filed against him for an interview with a South Korean news outlet in 2015, while his lawyer said that the video clip used as evidence was not the original.

The Appeal Court has sentenced a protester to two years in prison for royal defamation over wearing Thai traditional dress at a mock fashion show during a protest in 2020.

Six MPs from the opposition Thai Sang Thai Party have been condemned for voting in favour of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as a new prime minister, an act considered contrary to the party’s stance and ideology.

ThaiPBS and the Thai Journalists Association have demanded that Gen Prawit Wongsuwan, Phalang Pracharat Party leader and MP, take responsibility for assaulting a ThaiPBS reporter who asked him about the vote for a new Prime Minister.

For the past 100 weeks, activists in Chiang Mai have been staging a protest every Saturday to demand the release political prisoners. They now vow to keep going until all political prisoners are freed and the judicial system is reformed.

37-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s youngest daughter, has secured a majority of votes from 493 MPs in parliament to become Thailand’s youngest ever leader in history.

The Appeal Court has overturned the dismissal of a royal defamation charge against Tiwagorn Withiton, whose picture wearing a shirt printed with “I have lost faith in the monarchy” went viral in 2020, and sentenced him to 6 years in prison.

Following the Constitutional Court’s ruling to dismiss Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, the House of Representatives has scheduled a vote for a new Prime Minister this Friday (16 August).

The Constitutional Court has voted by a 5-4 majority to disqualify Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for violation of ethical standards by appointing to a cabinet position a person who has a prior criminal conviction.

Thammasat University’s Faculty of Law Student Committee and the Thammasat University Student Council have started a petition calling on the faculty not to invite Constitutional Court judge Udom Ratamarit back to teach as a special instructor after the Constitutional Court ruled to dissolve the Move Forward Party (MFP).

Last Thursday (8 August), pro-democracy activists gathered in front of the Bangkok Remand Prison on what would have been the 29th birthday of activist Netiporn Sanesangkhom, who died in detention following a long hunger strike to demand the release of political prisoners, while her cause of death has yet to be explained by the authorities.