<div> <div>The military court sentenced a red-shirt businessman accused of posting content defaming the monarchy on Facebook to 50 years imprisonment, in a trial held in camera, but the jail term was halved because the suspect pleaded guilty.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The man, who wants to remain anonymous and whose given name begins with T and surname with S, was accused of using two Facebook accounts under the name “Yai Daengdueat”. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc96c6da-847b-9784-8f42-5f360435674c">Thai police have arrested a businessman for posting lèse majesté messages on his Facebook account.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc96c6da-847b-9784-8f42-5f360435674c">The man, whose given name begins with T and surname with S, was accused of using two Facebook accounts under &nbsp;“Yai Daengdueat” (</span>ใหญ่ แดงเดือด) to post three messages deemed to defame the King, according to the police custody petition submitted to the military court on Thursday. &nbsp;</p>