A 57-year-old woman from Phetchabun Province has been sentenced to one year and six months in prison after allegedly sharing a Facebook post calling for the monarchy to be under the constitution.

<div> <div>Facebook has complied with a request from the junta to restrict user access to a video posted by an exiled critic of the monarchy, citing Thailand’s newly amended Computer Crimes Act.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On 4 May 2017, the exiled academic Somsak Jeamteerasakul <a href="https://www.facebook.com/somsakjeam/posts/1302945343092075">announced</a> on his Facebook page that he had received an email from Facebook informing him that one of his posts violates Thailand’s <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/6785">2007 Computer Crimes Act (CCA)</a>. </div></div>

<p dir="ltr">After tasking the Army Cyber Centre with a lèse majesté hunt, the Thai government has claimed it has blocked about 900 URLs with content deemed insulting to the Thai Monarchy or threatening to national security.</p> <p dir="ltr">On 2 October 2016, ACM Prajin Janthong, a deputy minister and caretaker Minister for Digital Economy and Society (DE), said that so far the centre has blocked 200 URLs with content allegedly violating Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, in accordance with the junta’s order.</p>