<p>A military court has handed a 35-year jail term to a man accused of creating a copycat Facebook profile and posting lèse majesté messages on it to take revenge on his friend.</p> <p>The previous longest sentence for lèse majesté was 30 years (reduced from 60) which was passed on <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/5756">Phongsak S</a>. on 7 August 2015 by the Bangkok Military Court for comments he posted on Facebook.</p>

<p>Thai Military Court has extended the pre-trial detention of a man accused of creating a copycat Facebook profile under his friend’s name to take revenge by posting lèse majesté messages and images.</p>