Sirapop

26 Nov 2016
A military court has given an 8 months suspended jail term to a suspect who refused to comply with a junta order.  He also faces a lèse majesté charge   On 25 November 2016, Bangkok Military Court found Sirapop (surname withheld for privacy concerns) guilty of breaching a junta order. The court sentenced him to 1 year in jail and an 18,000 baht fine.
21 Jan 2016
The Court Jurisdiction Committee (CJC) has ruled that the Military Court has jurisdiction over a lèse majesté case concerning a former blogger, saying that the lèse majesté content he posted was still online after the 2014 coup d’état.
24 Sep 2015
The military and criminal courts for the first time have disagreed over which court should have the jurisdiction to try a lèse majesté suspect. The Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road, Bangkok, on Tuesday, 22 September 2015, ruled that it has jurisdiction over the case of 52-year-old Sirapop (surname withheld due to privacy concerns), suspected of offenses under Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law.
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