Continuing our 112 updates from the past three weeks: Prachatai reported that Jirawat (last name withheld), a 32-year-old online clothing vendor, has been sentenced by the South Bangkok Criminal Court to nine years in prison on Article 112 and computer crimes charges, reduced to six years. The sentence stemmed from three Facebook posts in 2021…
The unexplained or covered-up death of King Ananda Mahidol in 1946 has been a sore point for royalists and the palace for all these decades. In recent years, it has led to lese majeste cases, secret courts, and much trawling of archives to try to get a better perspective on the events that involved then…