Two pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to prison by the Appeal Court for spray-painting the Democracy Monument and the Giant Swing in an attempt to draw public attention to the right to bail for a youth activist. Both were later granted provisional bail.

<p>The Criminal Court granted bail to a punk musician after he was sentenced to a year in prison for spray-painting what looked like an anarchist symbol on the court’s name plate in Bangkok.</p>

<p>The Thai Criminal Court sentenced a man to two years’ imprisonment for spray-painting what looked like an anarchist symbol on the court’s name plate in Bangkok, but the jail term was halved.</p> <p>The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road on Tuesday morning, 14 July 2015, sentenced Nattapon Kemngoen, aka Jayjay, a 22-year-old man accused of the painting letter ‘A’ in a circle, resembling the symbol for anarchism, on the nameplate of the court, to two years in jail for destroying public property and violating the Public Cleanliness Act.</p>

<p>The criminal court sentenced a man to one month in jail, suspended for one year, for spray-painting an anarchist symbol on the court’s name plate in Bangkok.</p> <p>Ratchada Criminal Court on Wednesday afternoon sentenced Nattapon (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), accused of painting letter ‘A’, resembling the symbol for anarchism, on the name plate of the court, to a month in jail for destroying public property and violating the Public Cleanliness Act. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>