Human rights lawyer Anon Nampa has been sentenced to two years in prison for royal defamation related to a speech he delivered during a 2020 protest. He is currently facing a total of 24 years for royal defamation.

The Appeal Court has overturned a lower court ruling and found a 32-year-old man guilty of royal defamation for throwing paint at a portrait of King Vajiralongkorn at an expressway entrance in Nonthaburi’s Pak Kret District.

The Supreme Court has sentenced a 28-year-old man from Sa Kaeo province to one year and six months in prison on a royal defamation charge filed against him for commenting on a picture of King Vajiralongkorn posted in the monarchy reformist Facebook group Royalist Marketplace.

The public prosecutor has decided not to indict US academic Dr Paul Chambers on charges of royal defamation and violation of the Computer Crimes Act.

9 pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to two years and ten months in prison for trespassing and other charges resulting from a 2023 protest they staged in front of the Samran Rat Police Station to demand the release of a 15-year-old activist. They were later allowed bail.

The Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) has answered questions about its royal defamation complaint against the US academic Dr Paul Chambers over a blurb on the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute website.

A 27-year-old pro-democracy activist has been sentenced to two years in prison for royal defamation over a Facebook post made in 2022.

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, Thailand’s relentless legal machine continues to crush political dissent. As royal defamation cases against activists are brought to court, legal scholar Somchai Preechasilpakul has been summoned to testify as an expert witness in several trials of high-profile activists. Prachatai speaks to Somchai about his experience in court and the failings of the Thai justice system in these trials.

American academic Dr Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University’s Faculty of Social Sciences who was charged with royal defamation, has been granted provisional bail, with 600,000 baht as security. He was required to wear an electronic monitoring device.

The US Department of State is "alarmed" by the Thai authorities' arrest of US academic Dr Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University's Faculty of Social Sciences, said department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

The Phitsanulok Provincial Court today (8 April) denied bail for Dr Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, who was charged with royal defamation and violation of the Computer Crimes Act. He will be detained while his lawyers appeal the Court’s decision.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Dr Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, after a royal defamation complaint was filed against him by the Army.