The Appeal Court has dismissed a royal defamation charge against a performance artist for staging a performance in front of Chiang Mai University in 2021 to demand the release of detained activists.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

UN independent experts said that they are "dismayed" at the use of the royal defamation law to dissolve the Move Forward Party (MFP), which won the largest number of seats in the 2023 general election, and ban its leaders from politics. They noted that the royal defamation law is outdated and inconsistent with international law, and efforts to "peacefully reform" it should be supported, not thwarted.

In the Constitutional Court verdict to dissolve the Move Forward Party (MFP), the Court has claimed that ‘the MFP’s campaign sought to take advantage of the monarchy to win the election,’ while it also warned representatives of foreign governments to follow diplomatic etiquette when expressing their opinions on this matter.

Amnesty International, in response to the Constitutional Court ruling to dissolve the Move Forward Party, has asserted that the Court's ruling is deemed an untenable decision that reveals the authorities’ complete disregard for Thailand’s international human rights obligations.

The Constitutional Court ruled today (7 August) to dissolve the Move Forward Party, the largest opposition party and the party with the highest number of seats in the House of Representatives, on the grounds that the party had committed treason by campaigning to amend the royal defamation law.