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<div>Lèse majesté cases under Article 112 of the Criminal Code have gained much attention. Hot debates have flared up every time the Court hands down verdicts on such cases and the opinions expressed tend to be highly polarized. </div>
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<div>Part of the online debate is harbored to support a notion that “Lèse majesté is a bad law, it should be revoked”.
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<div>The public prosecutor on Thursday indicted an undergraduate student under the lèse majesté law and the Computer Crime Act for a Facebook comment. </div>
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By Kongpob Areerat and Thaweeporn Kummetha |
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<div>Instead of throwing an ice bucket over one’s head, the challenge is to sing a song whose lyrics touch every free spirit. </div>
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<div>Sulak Sivaraksa, a renowned loyalist and critic of the lèse majesté law, has condemned the suppression of freedom of expression, especially the use of the lèse majesté law to arrest and threaten civilians, academics and artists, saying the more despotic the regime is, the more people are being hunted for expressing their thoughts, while the junta leader on Friday defended the use of the draconian law. </div>
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<div>Sulak said the recent coup affected the monarchy and that the coup junta is using Article 112 or the lèse majesté law to suppress freedom fo
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<div>The Criminal Court on Monday found a 50-year-old man guilty of lèse majesté for uploading audio clips onto 4shared.com, a file-sharing website, and sentenced him to three years in jail. Since the defendant pleaded guilty, the sentence was halved and suspended for two years. </div>
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<div>The court found Chaleaw J.
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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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By Human Rights Watch |
<div>AUGUST 20, 2014</div>
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<div><strong>Thailand: Theater Activists Jailed for Insulting Monarchy</strong></div>
<div><strong>Lese Majeste Arrests Increase Since Military Coup</strong></div>
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<div>(New York) – The arrest of two activists involved in a play considered by Thai military authorities to be “insulting to the monarchy” shows the decline in freedom of expression in Thailand since the May 22, 2014 coup, Human Rights Watch said today.
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By UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
<div>19 August 2014</div>
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<div><strong>Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Ravina Shamdasani</strong></div>
<div><strong>Location: Geneva</strong></div>
<div><strong>Subject: Thailand</strong></div>
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<div>We are seriously concerned about the prosecution and harsh sentencing of individuals in Thailand under the country's lèse majesté law. Such measures are adding to the larger pattern of increasing restrictions on freedom of expression in Thailand.
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By Human Rights Lawyers Association |
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<div><strong>Violation of freedom of expression must be stopped</strong></div>
<div><strong>Fair trial principles must be observed</strong></div>
<div><strong>Two student activists must be released without delay</strong></div>
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<div> During 15-16 August 2014, police officials from the Chana Songkhram Metropolitan Police Station arrested Mr.
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<div>After ASTV-Manager Weekly last week was reprimanded by the junta, the publisher of Matichon Weekly on Friday decided to halt distribution of its latest issue due to fear of a lèse majesté prosecution.</div>
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<div>ASTV-Manager Online on Friday reported that it has been confirmed by the distributer of the weekly news magazine that Matichon has asked the distributer to stop distributing issue 1774 of the magazine for 15-21 August, but did not call in the ones which had been sold, adding that Matichon told the distributor that it “doesn’t want the publishi
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<div>The police on Friday morning arrested and charged Pornthip M. with lèse majesté for her involvement with a political play about a fictional monarch, which has deemed lèse majesté by the police.</div>
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<div>The police on Thursday arrested a student activist from northeastern Khon Kaen University and charged him with lèse majesté. He was accused of taking part in a political play about a fictional monarch, deemed lèse majesté by the police.</div>
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<div>On Friday, the court rejected his bail request. He is now detained at Bangkok Remand Prison.</div>
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<div>The police arrested Patiwat S., 23, on campus on Thursday at 3 pm.
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