Wave (pseudonym), is a 30 year-old man from Nonthaburi, who was indicted on 13 June 2023 under Article 112 and for computer crimes, accused for his criticism of Siam Bioscience’s, COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine production in 2021. Prachatai reports that he was convicted on 11 October 2023 by the Ratchapisek Criminal Court and sentenced to 3…
Over the years, PPT has had quite a lot to say about the failings of the legal system: the police are rotten to the core and the courts are corrupted by royalism. Most recently, we posted about a hierarchy of (in)justice and how lese majeste cases are a travesty of justice. When it comes to…
Prachatai, using data from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, reports that the "denial of bail for Anon Nampa and Weeraphap Wongsaman has brought the number of people detained on a royal defamation charge in Thailand to 13. Of this number, 3 are detained following a final verdict or after a decision not to appeal, while…
Prachatai reports that political activist Sopon Surariddhidhamrong has been sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison for lese majeste and another minor offence for a speech on 22 April 2022 at a protest that the court decided insulted Queen Suthida. As we understand it, he faces another two 112 charges. Sopon was charged…
Prachatai has two reports on legal actions against activists accused of lese majeste. The first report is of 25-year-old activist Bang-oen was arrested again on 6 April 2023 on a lese majeste charge filed against him in December 2022, while another two other activists were arrested for spray-painting protest messages onto the Democracy Monument and…