<div> <div> <div>The Appeal Court on Friday affirmed the decision of the Court of First Instance to acquit the man who was accused by his own brother of defaming the King.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Yutthaphum (last name withheld due to privacy concerns), 35, was accused in 2009 of making inappropriate remarks or curses in the presence of his brother while watching the news on television showing HM the King in a wheelchair and buying and writing inappropriate words in parentheses on a CD on which was written ‘Stop offending HM the King’. </div></div></div>

<p>A man accused of lèse majesté by his own brother has been denied bail by the court for the second time since he was detained pending trial last month.</p>