BANGKOK – Thai Webmaster Chiranuch Premchaiporn lost her appeal Friday against a conviction for failing to remove a comment deemed critical of the monarchy from...
BANGKOK – The founder of Thailand’s royalist Yellow Shirt movement has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for defaming the monarchy by repeating offensive comments...
BANGKOK – A Thai court today acquitted a man held for nearly a year under controversial royal defamation laws after his own brother accused him of...
BANGKOK – Thanawat Martnok and his little brother have argued most of their lives — about their struggling business, about politics, even about their dogs....
BANGKOK — A Thai web designer convicted of defaming Thailand’s monarchy was released from jail Friday after receiving a royal pardon from the king. Activist...
BANGKOK – The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers is “deeply concerned” by the misuse of the lese majeste rules, its president Jacob...
BANGKOK – A Thailand criminal court convicted Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, the editor of the now-defunct Voice of Taksin magazine to 11 years in jail on Wednesday...
BANGKOK –Two Thai “Royal Insult” suspects yesterday lost a landmark legal case against the kingdom’s controversial lese majeste rules as a court ruled the law...
Chiangrai Times – A Bangkok court on Wednesday acquitted the founder of Thailand’s monarchist “Yellow Shirt” protest movement of royal insult charges for repeating excerpts...
Chiangrai Times – The King of Thailand has granted a pardon to a US citizen who was jailed for translating a banned book about the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The trial of an internet service provider on lese majeste charges puts Thailand’s web moderators at risk of long prison terms, Human...
TRCT chairman Kanit na Nakorn reminded all sides that instead of shedding light on a possible solution, the debate on the issue seemed only to...
Supporters of a grandfather jailed for 20 years in Thailand for insulting the king held a rare public protest against the kingdom’s strict lese majeste...
The rising awareness of Thailand’s draconian lèse majesté law is gaining scrutiny from the international community after several countries have questioned and criticized Article 112 of...
The Thai government is aware of the conflict between freedom of speech and the lese majeste law, says Thailand’s ambassador to the United Nations in...
BANGKOK – A Thai appeals court has dropped royal insult charges against six people jailed for setting fire to portraits of Thai kings, it said, but...
– KHON KAEN – A thai Student and Pro-democracy activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa (“Pai Dao Din”), was today sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, for violating Thailand’s...
. GENEVA – An outside expert for the U.N. human rights office is urging Thailand’s government to halt the use of laws that make it illegal...
. . BANGKOK – The mother of one of Thailand’s highest-profile anti-junta activists, Sirawith Seritiwat has been charged with defaming the monarchy, police said on Friday,...
. . BANGKOK – A military court in Bangkok jailed three Thai Nationals on Wednesday, including an aide to the crown prince, as part of a...