Student activists have called on the Civil Court to scrap a section in the emergency decree, which they say imposes disproportionate legal punishment for protests.
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): A man who hacked into the website of Thailand’s Constitutional Court last November was sentenced to one year and six months in jail on Thursday (Aug 18).
The Criminal Court has approved bail for the temporary release of a 23-year-old Thammasat University student charged with royal insult, so that she can continue her studies.
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It is reported that yet another anti-government political prisoners has the virus. According to lawyer Noraset Nanongtoom, his client Panupong Jadnok has tested positive while in prison.
Panupong has been refused bail several times since being detained on 8 March 2021for lese majeste and other charges resulting from an anti-government/anti-monarchy rally on 19-20 September 2020.
And, he’s only one among thousands who are now infected in a hopelessly underfunded and overcrowded prison system.
After activist Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul was bailed and revealed she had contracted the virus in prison, Corrections Department director-general Aryut Sinthoppan was forced to finally confirm that there were 2,835 infections in two Bangkok prisons.
Thailand reported its largest ever spike in coronavirus infections Thursday, with more than half coming from two Bangkok prisons where prominent democracy activists have been detained.