On 14 May 2024, 28-year-old monarchy reform advocate Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom died while detained at the Corrections Hospital after a long hunger strike to demand judicial reform and an end to the detention of political dissidents. She was being held in pre-trial detention on a royal defamation charge after the South Bangkok Criminal Court revoked her bail on 26 January 2024 for participating in a protest at the Ministry of Culture on 6 August 2023.
At the same time, she was also serving a 1-month prison sentence for a contempt of court charge. Netiporn was pronounced dead at Thammasat University Hospital, where she had been transferred from the Corrections Hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest. To this day, the circumstances of her death remain unclear, leading to questions about the Corrections Hospital’s standard of care and the justice system as a whole.
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