<div> <div>The Thai police said on Friday that they have closed about 50 per cent of more than 400 lèse majesté cases filed with them in the past six months. Also, more than 25,000 websites were closed because of lèse majesté.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The police reported their six-month results at a press conference at the Royal Thai Police Headquarters on Friday.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>During the press conference, attended by about 100 civil servants, entrepreneurs, and medical volunteers, the police said they have closed 239 of 443 lèse majesté cases in the past six months. </div></div>

<div> <div>The appeal court last week gave a bookseller two years in jail for selling a banned book on the killing of King Ananda, a former king and older brother of the current King. He had earlier been acquitted by the court of first instance.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The appeal court on Thursday sentenced Defendant U. (name and last name withheld at the defendant’s request) to three years in jail, but since his testimony was beneficial to the case, the jail term was reduced by one third.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Defendant U. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr"><span>30 April will be the fourth anniversary of the deprivation of freedom of the red-shirt political magazine editor, sentenced to 10 years in jail for articles he did not write. His wife has been very supportive and became active campaigner against Article 112</span></p> <p></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span>30 April will be the fourth anniversary of the deprivation of freedom of the red-shirt political magazine editor, sentenced to 10 years in jail for articles he did not write. His wife has been very supportive and became active campaigner against Article 112</span></p> <p></p>

<p>An anti-corruption group has filed a lèse majesté complaint against a former senator from Thailand’s Northeast. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>According to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news_detail.php?newsid=1428478791">Matichon Online</a>, on 8 April 2015, Sorachat Thongpen, the secretary-general of the Dhammaphiban Group (Good Governance Group) of the People’s Network Against Corruption, submitted a lèse majesté complaint to the Justice Ministry against Prasert Prakoonsuksapan, former senator of the northeastern province of Khon Kaen.</p>

<p>Conflict between local leaders in Northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima Province, commonly known as Khorat, has led to a lèse majesté accusation. The conflict is centred on the campaign to separate Bua Yai and seven other districts from the large province in the Northeast.&nbsp;</p>

<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>

<div>Bundit Aneeya, a 74 year-old writer charged with lèse majesté for the second time, has decided not to plead guilty in the military court and to fight the case. </div>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c61eabd-49dd-a804-7596-b8dec143bd1b">Thailand’s Ministry of Justice is now chasing 31 lèse majesté suspects who are currently living overseas in an attempt to extradite the suspects from the host countries and have them prosecuted in Thailand. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-daa8ee26-463c-42c5-14f5-f66affe34ff4">The police arrested a lèse majesté suspect from northern Thailand and accused him of posting lèse majesté content on Facebook. He was accused of being part of the </span><a href="http://prachatai.org/english/node/4748">Banpodj Network</a>, an alleged criminal organisation, which produces online and other electronic content to discredit the junta and the monarchy.</p>

<div>A court in Bangkok on Friday sentenced the younger brother and two other relatives of the former royal consort to the Crown Prince to 11 years in jail, but since the defendants pleaded guilty, the jail term was halved.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Nattapong, Narong and Sittisak Suwadee were found guilty of making false claims about the Crown Prince to threaten a businessman into agreeing to reduce a debt. They were also found guilty of abduction, robbery, illegal possession of unauthorized weapons, and carrying weapons in a public place. </div>

<div> <div>The military court sentenced an elderly man to three years in jail for writing messages defaming the King on a toilet wall, but since the defendant pleaded guilty, the jail term was halved to one year and six months. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The military court on Friday morning found Opas C., 67, guilty of writing a lèse majesté message in a restroom of Seacon Square shopping mall in eastern Bangkok.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Due to Opas's poor health, Sauvakon C., Opas's wife, wrote a letter asking the court for mercy. </div></div>