<div>A report reveals that Thai justice system hardly take mental-illness of lèse-majesté suspects into account and the number of lèse-majesté cases against mental-illnesses has increased after the 2014 coup. </div>
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<div>On Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Thailand’s Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=712">published</a> a report showing the obvious increase in number of lèse-
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<div>11 August 2015</div>
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<div>Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani</div>
<div>Location: Geneva</div>
<div>Subjects: Thailand / lèse-majesté</div>
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<div>We are appalled by the shockingly disproportionate prison terms handed down over the past few months in lèse-majesté cases in Thailand.
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<div>The criminal court on Thursday morning sentenced a mentally ill man to three years and four months in jail for sending to a lèse majesté blog a link to lèse majesté content. </div>
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<div>Tanet (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) was found guilty of sending an email with a link to content deemed to defame the monarchy to the now-defunct Stop Lèse Majesté blog.
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<div>The Criminal Court on Monday ruled to try in secret the case of a man charged with lèse majesté for sending to the Stop Lèse Majesté blog a link to content deemed as defaming the King. </div>
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<div>At 3.15 pm, Tanet (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) was taken to court for a preliminary hearing.
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<div>The Criminal Court on Monday ruled to continue the detention of two lèse majesté suspects and denied a bail request from one suspect.</div>
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<div>Ratchada Criminal Court in Bangkok dismissed a bail request by Tanet, a lèse majesté suspect whose surname is withheld due to privacy concerns, whose friends put up 200,000 baht in cash as security.
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<div> A man has been arrested and charged with lèse majesté under Article 112 for sending an email with a link to content deemed to defame the monarchy to the now-defunct Stop Lèse Majesté blog. This is the third case involving the blog, according to iLaw. </div>
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<div><a href="http://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en/case/614">Tanet</a> (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) was accused of sending an email to Emilio Esteban, whom the police identified as an Englishman residing in Spain.
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