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<div>A report reveals that Thai justice system hardly take mental-illness of lèse-majesté suspects into account and the number of lèse-majesté cases against mental-illnesses has increased after the 2014 coup.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><img alt="" src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5568/15214891692_e68b09995d_o.png" /></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Thailand’s Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) <a href="http://www.tlhr2014.com/th/?p=712">published</a> a report showing the obvious increase in number of lèse- </div>
By UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
<div> <div>11 August 2015</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani</div> <div>Location: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Geneva</div> <div>Subjects: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Thailand / lèse-majesté</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>We are appalled by the shockingly disproportionate prison terms handed down over the past few months in lèse-majesté cases in Thailand. </div>
<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The criminal court on Thursday morning sentenced a mentally ill man to three years and four months in jail for sending to a lèse majesté blog a link to lèse majesté content.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Tanet (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) was found guilty of sending an email with a link to content deemed to defame the monarchy to the now-defunct Stop Lèse Majesté blog. </div>
<div>The Criminal Court on Monday ruled to try in secret the case of a man charged with lèse majesté for sending to the Stop Lèse Majesté blog a link to content deemed as defaming the King.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>At 3.15 pm, Tanet (last name withheld due to privacy concerns) was taken to court for a preliminary hearing. </div>
<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The Criminal Court on Monday ruled to continue the detention of two lèse majesté suspects and denied a bail request from one suspect.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Ratchada Criminal Court in Bangkok dismissed a bail request by Tanet, a lèse majesté suspect whose surname is withheld due to privacy concerns, whose friends put up 200,000 baht in cash as security. </div></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>&nbsp;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. &nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <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. </div></div>