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Piya was arrested on 11 December 2014 by plainclothes policemen and accused for using a facebook account named “Mr.Ponsatorn Buntorn” and posting a Lèse majesté message. Piya accepted that the profile picture that appears on facebook is his picture but he did not involve with this facebook account. The defendant fought his case that the plaintff's evidence is ...

Samart distributed the leaflets with the message “Straight down the Dictators, long live Democracy – VOTE NO on August 7th” and put it in windshield wiper in front of 10 cars that parked in Chiang Mai’s Pantip Plaza. He was then arrested and prosecuted with the Referendum Act of 2016 section 61 (2). Samart was detained for 10 days before got bail. In the court ...

Nattapol, a 22-year-old man was charged for damaged public property after spray-painted an alphabet A in a circle, which could be understood as an anarchy symbol, on the Criminal Court’s signage. On 25 May 2015, Nattapol was arrested while he was working at a film set. He was later held at the Phaholyothin Police Station    Nattapol was held at the police station for 2 ...

Kampol, an environmental activist who lived in Southern Region posted status on his personal Facebook in September 2014 criticized against the use of artificial reef made by coal's ashes.   Phayorm Rattanamanee, a researcher who conducted a research on a production of artificial reef felt that Kampol's status was harmful to his reputation. Phayorm then filed a defamation and ...

In July 2016, villagers in Phichit Province gathered on the public way while vehicles of Akara Mining Company were passing by. The company later filed complaint against the villagers for extortion, claiming that the villagers block the road and prevent the company vehicles from traveling freely. In February 2017, the prosecutor charged 27 villagers for extortion under section 309 of the ...

The Head of NCPO issued an order no. 5/2017 declared the control area over Dhammakaya Temple and its surrounding area. The order also provided special powers to the authorities including, summon persons to report.       On 20 February 2017, Pol Col Paisith Wongmuang Director of the Department of Special Investigation summoned 14 monks to report. Phra Dattajivo and Phra ...

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In April 2014, Piyasvasti, a chair of PTT public company filed a case under defamation by publication and Computer-related Crimes Act Section 14, 15 against Saran, an admin of Facebook page 'take back Thai energy' for posting messages accused that Piyasavasi and his wife was fraudulent and obstructed the energy reform movement. The Court of the First Instance sentenced Saran to 9 ...

Veera Somkwamkid, president of the Protection of Civil Rights and Freedom Group and the secretary of the People's Network Anti Corruption was charged with Computer-related Crime Charge for made a poll survey confidentiality of the Thai public toward the government and the Prime Minister on his personal facebook. Veera concluded a result of the survey that 90 percent of people who ...