Case

When the NCPO seized the power on 22 May 2014, it issued NCPO order no. 1/2014 summoned Chaturon as Phue Thai politician to report in a military camp. Chaturon did not went to report on time. He also posted message on his facebook declared that he did not recognize the power from the coup so he could not comply with order.  

Later, Chaturon made announcement that on 27 May 2014 he will hold a press conference at the Foreign Correspondence Club of Thailand (FCCT). On the date he managed to talk to the press shortly before he was arrested by military men in uniform.

Chaturon was held in a military camp for 2 nights before he was brought to the Crime Suppression Division to inform of 3 criminal accusations inculding defying NCPO summon order, Sedition under Section 116 of the Criminal Code and Computer-related Crime Act Section 14(3). 

Chaturon was remanded in custory at the Bangkok Remand Prison for 9 days from 29 May to 6 June 2014. He was released after the court granted him bail.

On 15 October 2014 Chaturon entered in to a plea at the Bangkok  Military Court. Chaturon filed motion object jurisdiction of the military court over his case. Later on 25 April 2016 the Bangkok Military Court read order of the Committee on Jurisdiction of Courts on dispute over court jurisdiction that the charge of defying of NCPO summon order was a case under jurisdiction of the civillian court but the Sedition and Computer-related Crime Act accusations were falled under jurisdiction of the Bangkok Military Court.