The Network for People’s Amnesty filed a petition today (18 July) calling on the ad-hoc committee studying approaches to an amnesty bill to include those facing royal defamation charges in its amnesty programme.

3 activists arrested for singing a protest song have been sentenced to 7 years in prison for royal defamation and contempt of court. The sentence was later reduced to 3 years and 6 months.

Activist-turned-Move Forward Party MP Piyarat Chongthep has filed a request with the Kalasin Provincial Court calling for the repeal of a 1 July court order ending witness examination in a royal defamation trial against him on the grounds that the order makes the trial unlawful. He also requested that the court re-schedule the hearing.

The Appeal Court for Specialised Cases has upheld the decision not to release a political activist from a juvenile detention centre on a royal defamation charge following his participation in a 2021 protest.

A noodle vendor has been indicted on a royal defamation charge for a speech about the royal motorcade budget given at a protest on 19 July 2022.

The Appeal Court has dismissed royal defamation and other charges against activist Noppasin Treelayapewat for allegedly spray-painting on an image of King Vajiralongkorn during the 2021 protest.

Activist Nawat Liangwattana was denied bail on Tuesday (2 July) after the Criminal Court had an arrest warrant issued for him for missing an evidence examination hearing on Monday (1 July).

A 28-year-old man has been found guilty of royal defamation and given a suspended prison sentence over a Facebook profile picture posted in July 2021.

The Appeal Court has overturned a Thanyaburi Provincial Court ruling and found a 30-year-old man guilty of royal defamation for throwing paint at a portrait of King Vajiralongkorn in front of a shopping mall in Pathum Thani’s Rangsit District.

Influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has escaped pre-trial detention after the Criminal Court granted him bail on a royal defamation charge.

Four high-profile political cases will be the subject of court hearings next week. They have the potential to decide the fate of Thailand and include petitions to dismiss Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and to dissolve the progressive Move Forward Party.

The Constitutional Court yesterday (12 June) ordered the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) to submit a list of additional evidence in support of its petition for the dissolution of the Move Forward Party (MFP) and the disqualification of MFP leaders before it reconvenes on 18 June.