<div> <div>A military court has given an 8 months suspended jail term to a suspect who refused to comply with a junta order. &nbsp;He also faces a lèse majesté charge</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 25 November 2016, Bangkok Military Court found Sirapop (surname withheld for privacy concerns) guilty of breaching a junta order. The court sentenced him to 1 year in jail and an 18,000 baht fine. </div></div>

<p>The Court Jurisdiction Committee (CJC) has ruled that the Military Court has jurisdiction over a lèse majesté case concerning a former blogger, saying that the lèse majesté content he posted was still online after the 2014 coup d’état.</p>

<p>The military and criminal courts for the first time have disagreed over which court should have the jurisdiction to try a lèse majesté suspect.</p> <p>The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road, Bangkok, on Tuesday, 22 September 2015, ruled that it has jurisdiction over the case of 52-year-old Sirapop (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), suspected of offenses under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>