An appeals court has upheld a 2-year prison sentence ordered by the Bangkok South Criminal Court for a woman who dressed to look like the Queen during a demonstration calling for royal reforms and an end to Lese Majeste.
The defendant, Jatuporn Sae Ung, 25, dressed to emulate the Queen during a demonstration in the Silom area of Bangkok in October 2020, advocating for reforming the royal defamation laws and ending Article 112.
The court said the defendant, who wore a traditional Thai-style dress and shook hands with demonstrators who called her the queen and called out “Long live,” was an insult to Her Majesty the Queen.
The lower court initially sentenced Ms Jatuporn to three years, but because she cooperated during the investigation, the court reduced the prison term to two years and fined her 1,000 baht.
Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code states that anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with a jail term between 3 to 15 years.
On August 7, 2024, Thailand’s Constitutional Court disbanded the Move Forward Party, the official opposition and banned ten of its leaders from politics for 10 years for its proposal to reform Article 112, arguing it posed a threat to the constitutional order and the monarchy.
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