Case

On 10 December 2016, the police set deadline for Dhammajayo, a monk from Dhammakaya temple to report under money laundering charge and stationed in the area surrounding Dhammakaya Temple. Ongart who is a speaker of Dhammakaya Temple's followers read a statement expressed concerns over the force that had been deployed and over suspicious in Dhammajayo’s case.    DSI ...

Tanet, a political activist, was arrested and charged under Section 116 and Computer Crimes Act Section 14(3) for posting picture, message, opinion and sharing other people's Facebook post causing damage to the government and the army. During the provisional detention, the authorities did not specified which post led to the charge. 

Andy Hall is a researcher and a human right defender, his study focus on the violation of human rights against migrant workers. He was sued after published a research  on the violation of human rights against migrant workers in the international private label products in Thailand  This case started in 2013, the court accepted the case in 2015 and the witness examination ...

Somyot, an editor of Voice of Taksin magazine, was accused for publicizing 2 articles narrating two Thai political incidents. DSI filed  the case against Somyot for being an editor and willingly publicizing this magazine that deemed a violation of Section 112 of Penal Code   On April 30, 2011 Somyot was arrested and have been held in custody since then even though he requested ...

In 2014, PTT public company filed criminal defamation charge and charge under section 14(1) and 15 of the Computer-related Crime Act against Saran, an admin of Facebook page 'take back Thai everygy'.The case based on 21 facebook posts accused PTT for fraudulent, cause the rise of energy price, hiring third party to use violence against the protester, interfere the media and for being ...

On 14 February 2018, a group of student from Chiang Mai University under the name "Liberal Assembly of Chiang Mai University for Democracy - LACMUD" organized a protest to call for an election in front of the university with about 100 participants. On the date there was neither incident nor arrest.  A month later in March 2018, 6 participants were summoned by the police to ...

Siraphop who used “Rungsira” as his pseudonym was a poet and a blogger who wrote political articles and poems on his own blog and Facebook.   Siraphop was arrested by military official while he was traveling to Udon Thani province, as a result of defying NCPO summons. After that he was detained by an officer at Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) in order to ...

Bandit, a writer and translator, on 26 November 2014, made a comment in the seminar regarding the country reform hosted by the Innovation Party. Part of his comments was percieved as Lese Majeste. Bandit was arrested at the scene by the police who obeserved the seminar. He was released on 400,000 baht bail, on 28 November 2014.   Prior to the case, he was charged with article 112 in ...

On 12 February 2018 while Thanat was detained at the prison in Ratchaburi Province pending for his Lese Majeste trial at the Ratchaburi Provincial Court, the prison authorities transfered him to the Bangkok Remand prison without given a notice in advance for given any reason. Next morning Thanat was brought to the Criminal Court where he received a copy of complaint stating that he was ...

On 8 March 2017, a group of villagers who oppose Potash Mining in Sakon Nakhorn Province called "Rak Wanon Niwas" organized charity activity "A March to inform of merit" invited villagers to participate in a cultural activity to protect the community's river which set to be held on 12 March 2017. Later, on 27 March 2017 Sathanont member of the Rak Wanon Niwas Group ...