As the number of political prisoners continue to increase, the civil society has been pushing for an amnesty bill. Although several amnesty bills have been proposed, the royal defamation law, or Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code, remains the most contentious issue in the debate as several parties oppose granting amnesty to royal defamation defendants. But the report from the Special Committee studying approaches to an amnesty law present an option: conditional amnesty.

On 31 January 2024, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Move Forward Party, the main opposition party which won the most seats in the House of Representatives in the 2023 general election, had committed treason by campaigning to amend the royal defamation law. The ruling was later cited in the Court's ruling to dissolve the party. Worachet Pakeerut, lecturer at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Law, questioned how MPs proposing a bill to parliament could be seen as an exercise of their rights and liberties when legislating is part of an MP’s mandate, and argued that the ruling will deter future amendments to the royal defamation law and discussions of monarchy-related issues.

Human rights lawyer and activist Anon Nampa appeared at the Chiang Mai Provincial Court to testify in a royal defamation case arising from a speech he delivered on 23 November 2020 at Chiang Mai University. The verdict is scheduled to be delivered on 27 March 2025.

Following the sixth royal defamation conviction against human rights lawyer and activist Anon Nampa, PEN America issued a statement demanding Anon's immediate release and an end to the lèse-majesté law.

Human rights lawyer and activist Anon Nampa now faces 18 years in prison after he was found guilty of royal defamation and sedition over a protest speech during a 3 August 2020 protest.

An online clothing vendor detained pending appeal on a royal defamation charge has been granted bail and was released last Thursday (12 December) after over a year in detention.

The Appeal Court has dismissed a royal defamation charge filed against Sirapat Deesawat, a Nonthaburi-based artist and musician charged with removing a portrait of King Vajiralongkorn from a housing estate entrance.

The Appeal Court has sentenced a Thai pro-democracy activist to 1 year and 7 months without suspension on a royal defamation charge over his speech given at a protest on 13 February 2021.

Human rights lawyer and activist Anon Nampa now faces over 16 years in prison after he was found guilty of royal defamation and violation of the Computer Crimes Act for writing and posting a letter to King Vajiralongkorn on his public Facebook account on 8 November 2022.

After failing to settle on unsubmitted evidence regarding King Vajiralongkorn's travel documents, the Criminal Court has made the unprecedented decision to hold human rights lawyer Anon Nampa’s royal defamation trial in secret and prepared to charge him with contempt of court for opposing the Court’s decision.

Warunee (last name withheld), an online influencer charged with royal defamation, was released on Wednesday afternoon (27 November) after serving 1 year and 5 months of her prison sentence.

A 57-year-old jailed pro-democracy activist faces serious health issues in detention in the Bangkok Remand Prison, raising concerns over the adequacy of medical care for detainees.