<p>The operator of a controversial gold mine in Loei Province in Isan, Thailand’s Northeast, has sued a high school student for defamation.</p>
<p>On Sunday, 13 December 2015, Wanphen Khunna, a grade 10 student from Si Songkhram School and her family, natives of Khao Luang Subdistrict, Wang Saphung District, Loei Province, received a letter from Loei office of the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection, summoning Wanphen and her family members for interrogation.</p>
<div>The Supreme Court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a woman accused of posting lèse majesté content on the now-defunct Prachatai web forums in 2008 after she did not show up to hear the verdict. </div>
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<div>The Supreme Court on Friday morning was scheduled to read the verdict against Noppawan T., who was accused of using the username ‘Bento’ to post lèse majesté comments on the web forum.
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<p dir="ltr">A Buddhist monk from a well-known temple has filed defamation charges against a newspaper columnist for mocking him on social media over his hair-style.</p>
<p dir="ltr">According to <a href="http://manager.co.th/HotShare/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9580000087890">ASTV Manager</a>, Venerable Aphichat Promjan, the chief lecturer monk of Benjamabophit Temple, a Bangkok temple under royal patronage, on Tuesday, 4 August 2015, filed a complaint at Dusit Police Station concerning offences under the 2007 Computer Crime Act against Panthip Teeraneat, a columnist of Matichon Newspaper. </p>
<p>The military court granted bail to a red shirt woman accused of defaming the Thai junta leader.</p>
<p>At around 12 am on Monday, the Bangkok Military Court granted 100,000 baht bail to Rinda Parichabutr, a red shirt woman nicknamed “Lin,” 45, who was arrested last week for spreading a false rumour through social networks that Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the junta leader and Prime Minister, and his wife sent about 10 billion baht to a secret bank account in Singapore.</p>
<p>Anti-junta activists and others gathered at Bangkok Remand Prison to urge the release of an anti-establishment red shirt single mother charged with sedition for posting a false rumour about the Thai junta leader. </p>
<p>The criminal court held a preliminary hearing in the case of a man accused of defaming the monarchy on Facebook in camera after six months of detention although the defendant claimed that the alleged lèse majesté Facebook account was not his.</p>
<p>Bangkok’s Ratchada Criminal Court on Monday held a preliminary hearing in camera in the case of Piya (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), a 46 year old man who was accused under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.</p>
<p>The Criminal Court has accepted a criminal defamation charge filed against a law academic for allegedly defaming a former President of the Supreme Administrative Court.</p>
<p>The prosecutor at Bangkok’s Ratchada Criminal Court on Thursday indicted Phuttipong Ponganekgul, a law academic and part time lecturer at Siam and Kasetsart universities in Bangkok, for allegedly posting defamatory pictures and messages on the internet against Hatsawut Widitwiriyakun, a former President of the Supreme Administrative Court.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-abfc5ffe-5953-f331-937e-9786f4e827f5">Internal security officers in northeastern Thailand have filed a lawsuit against a man who allegedly posted a picture on Facebook of the officers trying to evict villagers. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1b47f567-c90e-2c69-1efd-84ade058dca6">The military’s Judge Advocate General’s Department has accused human rights lawyer Anon Numpa of publicising anti-junta information on his Facebook page. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">The authorities arrested a man for posting lese majeste on Facebook and said he was part of a movement to discredit the Thai monarchy on the Internet.</p>
<p>The police from <a href="http://www.tcsd.in.th/site/index">Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD)</a> on Wednesday held a press conference on the arrest Jamroen S., a middle age man accused of using the facebook profile titled <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uncha.unyo">‘Uncha Unyo</a>’ to post and share lese majeste contents.</p>
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<div>After a woman was arrested and charged with lèse majesté and offences under the Computer Crime Act for a Facebook post defaming the King, suspected to be a ploy to cause the woman trouble, two more people face the same charges. </div>
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<div>The military court on Friday approved the second custody request to detain the three suspects for another 12 days in detention. </div>
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<div>Jaruwan E., 26, Anon, 22, and Chat, 20 were accused of defaming the King on a public Facebook page with the name Jaruwan E. (full name and surname in Thai).
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<div> A man has been arrested and charged with lèse majesté under Article 112 for sending an email with a link to content deemed to defame the monarchy to the now-defunct Stop Lèse Majesté blog. This is the third case involving the blog, according to iLaw. </div>
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<div><a href="http://freedom.ilaw.or.th/en/case/614">Tanet</a> (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) was accused of sending an email to Emilio Esteban, whom the police identified as an Englishman residing in Spain.
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