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Opposition Parties held seminar on Constitution in Pattani
On 28 September 2019, coalition of opposition parties held public forum "Dynamic of crisis resolution in Southern borders provinces and the counting down to new Constitution. at the ...
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Sarinee: Written article deemed to contempt the court
On 14 May 2019, article titled "Danger of Overwhelming Legalism (once again): the case of media shareholding of lower house candidates" was published on Bangkok Business Newspaper. ...
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Prasitchai : posted facebook criticizing Walailak univ. on its tree management
Prasitchai Noonuan is environmental activist who based in southern Thailand. He expressed his opinion about tree management in Walailak university on his facebook five times. Later on, 5 July ...
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Ngamsuk : Thammakaset chicken farm sued academic for reporting on labor rights violation
One of the cases in an epic conflict between poultry farm of Thammakaset company and 14 Myanmar workers, Ngamsuk Ruttanasatian, an academic at Institute of Human Rights and Peace ...
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Suchanee: Chicken Farm Thammakaset sued VoiceTV reporter
One of the cases in an epic conflict between Thammakaset company which operated poultry farm business and 14 Myanmar workers. Suchanee, a reporter of VoiceTV, quoted a tweet on labor court ...
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Thanathorn: Joined with Activists gathered in front of Pathum Wan Police Station
On 24 June 2015, 7 activists including Rangsiman, Songtham, Ratthapon, Abhisit, Pakorn, Chonthicha, Pornchai went to Pathum Wan Police Station to report a case against police who ...
Case Update
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Sirawith: Defamation by publication and organized the assembly’s event called “Respect My Voice”
The Prosecutor postponed to render case order on 27 February 2020.
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Piyabutr: commented on TSN Party dissolution
Prosecutor postponed to render case order on 20 February 2020
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'Sichon' : Sedition charge for posting picture of King Rama 9th
On 12 December 2019, the Criminal Court found "Sichon" guilty under Computer-related Crime Act and sentenced him to 2 years in prison. His sedition accusation was acquitted by the court without explain in detail.
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"Boobpha": posted on Facebook about members of Royal family
Doctor testified that "Boobpha" has mental illness and misunderstand on Royal issue, however, "Boobpha" is conscious enough to stand trial. The court granted bail for 400,000 baht.
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Ponlawat : Dropped leaflets in Rayong
Rayong Provincial Court took the case that transferred from military court and scheduled for witness examination on 23 and 24 January 2020
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Prachakchai: Filed a petition deemed Lèse Majesté
The defendant passed away before the trial finishes. Criminal Court ordered to dispose the case without verdict
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A research found that since 1997 there were at least 212 SLAPP cases that had been push to the courts. Majority of defendants in such cases including general public, political activists (39%) Community leaders and Unionists (23%) Human Rights defenders (16%) and journalists (9%) while online expression were major ground for prosecution (25%) -
Ekkachai and Chokchai were prosecuted under the Public Assembly Act of 2015 after they held activity in front of Army Headquarter in response to statement made by Army chief. They were arrested at the scene and were charged with Public Assembly Act for fail to notify the police with regard to their activity. Due to ambiguity of the law, the duo decided to stand trial with intention to set up a legal standard what is public assembly that need to notify the police what are activity that need not to notification. -
Since the 2014 coup d'etat, Chonthicha Jangrew a former student from Srinakarinwirot University had increase her role in Thai political arena. She was part of 30 activists who were arrested after take action to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the coup. Throughout the reign of NCPO Chonthicha taken part in numbers of democratic activities and faced number of criminal charge as cost of her action. In 2017 she and her activists friend found "Democracy Restoration Group", a non profit organization to continue their campaign to promote Democracy in Thailand.
