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On 22 May 2014, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) declared the coup d'état, and brought Thailand into the new chapter on suspending access to the social media and suppressing the freedom of expression.
In the same day, the NCPO declared 3 orders relating to the...
The plight of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group has been a chronic serious human rights problem. Some of the Rohingya fled religious and ethnic suppression in Myanmar to southern Thailand on boats. Thailand has done very little to help this ethnic minority. In fact, there have been reports of human...
On 12 December 2013, the Criminal Court in Bangkok read a verdict on the case in which Mr. Kittithon, aka “kenji”, posted a message deemed defamatory to the King and the Queen of Thailand in dangdd.com or internetfreedom website. The accused was convicted to jail term by Article 112 of the Penal...
On 28 March 2013, the Criminal Court read its verdict sentencing Ekkachai H. to five years’ imprisonment and a 100,000 baht fine. Because the defendant’s testimony was useful, the court reduced the sentence by a third, to three years and four months in jail and a 66,666 baht fine. Ekkachai was...
The Statistic of the Website Censorship in Thailand, from 2007-2012 from iLaw - Internet Dialogue on Law Reform
From 2007-2012, it was found that 317 orders have been issued by the Courts invoking Section 20 of the CCA to ban access to content or the entire website of a total of 102,191 URLs...
