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title="Thailand">Thailand</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9" title="Lèse-majesté">lèse-majesté</a></i> is a crime according to Section 112 of the <a href="/wiki/Thai_Criminal_Code" class="mw-redirect" title="Thai Criminal Code">Thai Criminal Code</a>, which makes it illegal to <a href="/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation">defame</a>, <a href="/wiki/Insult_(legal)" title="Insult (legal)">insult</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Threat" title="Threat">threaten</a> the <a href="/wiki/King_of_Thailand" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Thailand">king of Thailand</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Queen_of_Thailand" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen of Thailand">queen of Thailand</a>, the heir to the throne of Thailand, or the <a href="/wiki/Regent_of_Thailand" title="Regent of Thailand">regent of Thailand</a>. Modern Thai <i>lèse-majesté</i> law has been on the statute books since 1908. Thailand is the only <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">constitutional monarchy</a> to have strengthened its <i>lèse-majesté</i> law since the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. With penalties ranging from three to fifteen years imprisonment for each <a href="/wiki/Criminal_charge" title="Criminal charge">count</a>, it has been described as the "world's harshest <i>lèse majesté</i> law"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "possibly the strictest criminal-defamation law anywhere".<sup id="cite_ref-economist_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its enforcement has been described as being "in the interest of the palace".<sup id="cite_ref-Connors_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connors-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 134">: 134 </span></sup> </p><p>The law has criminalised acts of insult since 1957. There is substantial room for <a href="/wiki/Judicial_interpretation" title="Judicial interpretation">interpretation</a>, which causes controversy. Broad interpretation of the law reflects the <a href="/wiki/Inviolable" class="mw-redirect" title="Inviolable">inviolable</a> status of the king, resembling <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudal</a> or <a href="/wiki/Absolute_monarchy" title="Absolute monarchy">absolute monarchs</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Thailand" title="Supreme Court of Thailand">Supreme Court of Thailand</a> decided the law also applies to prior monarchs. Criticism of any <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Thailand" title="Privy Council of Thailand">Privy Council member</a> has raised the question whether <i>lèse-majesté</i> applies by association. Even attempting to commit <i>lèse-majesté</i>, making sarcastic comments about the King's pet, and failure to rebuke an offense have been prosecuted as <i>lèse-majesté</i>. </p><p>Anyone can file a <i>lèse-majesté</i> complaint, and the police formally investigate all of them.<sup id="cite_ref-explained_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-explained-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Details of the charges are rarely made public. A Section 112 defendant meets with official obstruction throughout the case. There are <a href="/wiki/Indefinite_detention_without_trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Indefinite detention without trial">months-long pretrial detentions</a>, and courts routinely deny <a href="/wiki/Bail" title="Bail">bail</a> to those charged. The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/Working_Group_on_Arbitrary_Detention" title="Working Group on Arbitrary Detention">Working Group on Arbitrary Detention</a> determined that the pretrial detention of an alleged <i>lèse-majesté</i> offender violated <a href="/wiki/International_human_rights_law" title="International human rights law">international human rights law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW14_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW14-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The courts seem not to recognise the principle of granting defendants the <a href="/wiki/Reasonable_doubt" title="Reasonable doubt">benefit of the doubt</a>. Judges have said accusers did not have to prove the factuality of the alleged <i>lèse-majesté</i> material but only claim it is defamatory. <a href="/wiki/Pleading_guilty" class="mw-redirect" title="Pleading guilty">Pleading guilty</a>, then asking for a royal <a href="/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon">pardon</a>, is seen as the quickest route to freedom for any accused. </p><p>Since the <a href="/wiki/6_October_1976_massacre#Immediate_aftermath" title="6 October 1976 massacre">1976 coup</a>, coup makers have regularly cited a surge of alleged <i>lèse-majesté</i> charges as a reason for overthrowing elected governments. This was cited as one of the major reasons for the <a href="/wiki/2006_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2006 Thai coup d'état">2006 coup</a><sup id="cite_ref-2014highest_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2014highest-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that of <a href="/wiki/2014_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2014 Thai coup d'état">2014</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2014highest_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2014highest-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006 and 2007, there were notable changes in the trend. Those targeted by <i>lèse-majesté</i> complaints included more average citizens who were given longer jail sentences. Human rights groups condemned its use as a political weapon and a means to restrict freedom. The 2014 <a href="/wiki/National_Council_for_Peace_and_Order" title="National Council for Peace and Order">military junta government</a> granted authority to <a href="/wiki/Court-martial" title="Court-martial">army courts</a> to prosecute <i>lèse-majesté</i>, which has usually resulted in <a href="/wiki/Secret_trial" title="Secret trial">secret trials</a> and harsh sentences. Prior to the law's revival in 2020,<sup id="cite_ref-2020revival_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020revival-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for three years the Thai government often invoked other laws, such as the Computer Crimes Act and <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">sedition</a> laws, to deal with perceived damages and insults to the monarchy.<sup id="cite_ref-Team_2020_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Team_2020-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-International_Federation_for_Human_Rights_2020_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-International_Federation_for_Human_Rights_2020-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2023, the Supreme Court ordered a female politician from the <a href="/wiki/Move_Forward_Party" title="Move Forward Party">Move Forward Party</a> to be banned from politics for life due to her alleged <i>lèse-majesté</i> posts on social media.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On August 7, 2024, the <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Court_of_Thailand" title="Constitutional Court of Thailand">Constitutional Court</a> banned the victors of the <a href="/wiki/2023_Thai_general_election" title="2023 Thai general election">2023 parliamentary elections</a>, the Move Forward Party and all of its leaders from politics for its proposal to reform the <i>lèse-majesté</i> law, arguing it posed a threat to the constitutional order.<sup id="cite_ref-Economist1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 50-year imprisonment imposed on Mongkhon Thirakot in 2024 for shared posts and messages on Facebook is the longest sentence ever given for a <i>lèse-majesté</i> case, breaking the previous record of 43-year imprisonment given in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origin_and_early_developments">Origin and early developments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origin and early developments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the feudal era, monarchs, royal officials, royal symbols, and wrongdoings in the palace were protected from many kinds of "violation".<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 23–24">: 23–24 </span></sup> Crimes against royal symbols greatly affected the social structure of the <i><a href="/wiki/Sakdina" title="Sakdina">sakdina</a></i> era.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24–5">: 24–5 </span></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (December 2020)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The oldest version of <i>lèse-majesté</i> law was in the modern defamation law of 1900, enacted to protect the monarch's reputation.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> It made acts against the king acts against the state.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> </p><p>The Siamese criminal code of 1908 separated the King and the state. It penalised persons who displayed malice or defamed the King, the Queen Consort, the Heir-apparent, or the Regent. Anyone doing so was subject to imprisonment not exceeding seven years or fines of not more than 5,000 baht, or both.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> Other sections provided protection from displays of malice or defamation of "the princes or princesses from whichever reign"<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3">: 3 </span></sup> or from those who "create disloyalty" or "insult the king", and "cause the people to transgress the royal laws".<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 3–4">: 3–4 </span></sup> </p><p>As the print media was becoming widespread, the criminal code was strengthened in 1928 to penalise crimes of "advocates or teachers of any political or economic doctrine or system, intended or calculated to bring into hatred or contempt the Sovereign".<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4">: 4 </span></sup> </p><p><i>Lèse-majesté</i> law did not change significantly after the <a href="/wiki/1932_Siamese_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="1932 Siamese Revolution">1932 Siamese Revolution</a>, because the <a href="/wiki/Khana_Ratsadon" title="Khana Ratsadon">Khana Ratsadon</a> compromised and added the inviolable status of the king in the Constitution, which continues to the present day.|date=September 2023<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 28">: 28 </span></sup> However, the law included an exclusion clause for "an expression of good faith" or "a critical and unbiased comment on governmental or administrative acts".<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4">: 4 </span></sup> During that time, discussion about the monarchy was still free. This allowed discussion over whether Thailand be a constitutional monarchy in 1949, and a 1956 lecture by a legal scholar which said the king should not express an opinion on economic, political and social problems with no <a href="/wiki/Countersign_(legal)" title="Countersign (legal)">countersign</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 30">: 30 </span></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (December 2020)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1957_changes:_criminalisation_of_insult">1957 changes: criminalisation of insult</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1957 changes: criminalisation of insult"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <blockquote class="quote-frame pullquote" style="font-size: 95%; padding: 0.5em 2em; background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #f8f9fa ); color: var( --color-base, black ); border: 1px solid #aaa; display:table; float:right; width:30%;"><div style="padding: 0.6em 1em;"> "…it might not be true, and even if it were true, [it] should not be publicized as there is no legislation that allows it. And regarding the institution of the monarchy, it should be revered by the people, in an inviolable status, always above any criticism."<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 38–9">: 38–9 </span></sup><br /><cite style="display: block; text-align: right;"> — A Court decision in 1986, ruling that gossip could be<br /> <i>lèse-majesté</i> even if it were true.</cite></div></blockquote> <p>On 1 January 1957, the criminal code of 1956 came into force.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 18">: 18 </span></sup> Since then, <i>lèse-majesté</i> forbade <a href="/wiki/Insult_(legal)" title="Insult (legal)">insult</a>, in addition to the existing crimes of threats or defamation. The change broadly expanded the applicability of the law.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> <i>Lèse-majesté</i> was changed from an offense against the monarchy to an offense against national security,<sup id="cite_ref-Connors_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connors-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 133">: 133 </span></sup> removing the right to express opinions which might be insulting to the monarchy if said within the spirit of the constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> </p><p>Claiming national security, Thai Cold War dictator <a href="/wiki/Sarit_Thanarat" title="Sarit Thanarat">Sarit Thanarat</a> used <i>lèse-majesté</i> charges to suppress political opponents, leading to some executions. He also handed over <i>lèse-majesté</i> cases to courts-martial.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Court decisions shortly after the change still took context into consideration. In December 1957, a case against a politician was dismissed because a political campaign was underway.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 32–3">: 32–3 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Change_after_the_6_October_1976_massacre">Change after the 6 October 1976 massacre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Change after the 6 October 1976 massacre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 21 October 1976, two weeks after the <a href="/wiki/6_October_1976_massacre" title="6 October 1976 massacre">6 October 1976 massacre</a> and the same day coup by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Administrative_Reform_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Administrative Reform Council (page does not exist)">National Administrative Reform Council</a> (NARC), led by Admiral <a href="/wiki/Sangad_Chaloryu" title="Sangad Chaloryu">Sangad Chaloryu</a>, NARC issued Order No.41 that including Article 112 revision to strengthen defamation laws as they explained in the order that current laws had been unsuitable for the unstable political situation at that time. They mentioned the Monarchy and religion for example.<sup id="cite_ref-narc_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-narc-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Order No.41, the penalty for <i>lèse-majesté</i> was increased from a maximum of seven years imprisonment to three to fifteen years per count. Other than the <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a> during World War II, Thailand is the only <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">constitutional monarchy</a> that strengthened <i>lèse-majesté</i> in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 115–6">: 115–6 </span></sup> </p><p>Between 1977 and 1986 when the royal power base grew among the urban middle class, the "kinship" and "bond" relationship was created between the people and the king as well as its modern "inviolable" status.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 37–8">: 37–8 </span></sup> Since then, court decisions and legal scholars' comments have interpreted the <i>lèse-majesté</i> law to mean the king could not be criticized in any way.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 38–9">: 38–9 </span></sup> </p><p>Examples of cases of insult include a politician, in 1988, who served four years in prison for suggesting that life would have been easier had he been born in the palace,<sup id="cite_ref-Connors_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connors-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 134">: 134 </span></sup> and a man in 1976 who was arrested on charges of <i>lèse-majesté</i> for using a royal <a href="/wiki/Village_Scouts" title="Village Scouts">village scout</a> scarf to wipe a table.<sup id="cite_ref-Connors_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connors-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 134">: 134 </span></sup> Acts deemed insulting to the royal image include placing photographs of anybody on a website above those of the king.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2007, Oliver Jufer, a Swiss man, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for daubing black paint on portraits of King Bhumibol while drunk in <a href="/wiki/Chiang_Mai" title="Chiang Mai">Chiang Mai</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-bbcjailed_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcjailed-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although he received a royal <a href="/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon">pardon</a> the following month.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_weaponisation">Political weaponisation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Political weaponisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <caption><i>lèse-majesté</i> cases filed in Thailand, 2007–17<sup id="cite_ref-iLaw_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iLaw-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>No. of case </th></tr> <tr> <td>2007</td> <td>36 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008</td> <td>55 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009</td> <td>104 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010</td> <td>65 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011</td> <td>37 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012</td> <td>25 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013</td> <td>57 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014</td> <td>99 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015</td> <td>116 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016</td> <td>101 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017 <span style="font-size:85%;">(9 mo.)</span></td> <td>45 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Between 1990 and 2005, there was an average of five new <i>lèse-majesté</i> cases per year. Since then, however, there have been at least 400 cases—an estimated 1,500 per cent increase.<sup id="cite_ref-increase_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-increase-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to the 2006 coup, targets of <i>lèse-majesté</i> were mostly politicians, high-ranking bureaucrats and extra-constitutional figures, but after 2007, common people were charged.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 124">: 124 </span></sup> The law was interpreted to cover past monarchs and symbols associated with the monarch. No one had been sentenced to more than ten years in jail before 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 40–1">: 40–1 </span></sup> Observers attributed the increasing number of <i>lèse-majesté</i> cases to King Bhumibol's public invitation of criticism in 2005, increased polarization following the 2006 military coup, and to speculation over his declining health in the period before his death in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-increase_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-increase-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, cases registered in the Attorney General's office rose sharply from 12 new cases in 2000–2004 to 17.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 17">: 17 </span></sup> Thai Rak Thai and Democrat Party as well as opposition movement <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_for_Democracy" title="People's Alliance for Democracy">People's Alliance for Democracy</a> traded <i>lèse-majesté</i> accusations.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 124">: 124 </span></sup> Former prime minister <a href="/wiki/Thaksin_Shinawatra" title="Thaksin Shinawatra">Thaksin Shinawatra</a>'s alleged <i>lèse-majesté</i> was one of the stated reasons for the Thai military's <a href="/wiki/2006_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2006 Thai coup d'état">2006 coup</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-protlaw_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-protlaw-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-turkish_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-turkish-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-worldnotes_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worldnotes-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the coup, dozens of radio stations were shut down because of alleged <i>lèse-majesté</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Academics have been investigated, imprisoned, and forced into exile over accusations of <i>lèse-majesté</i>. Prominent historian <a href="/wiki/Somsak_Jeamteerasakul" title="Somsak Jeamteerasakul">Somsak Jeamteerasakul</a> was arrested for proposing an eight-point plan to reform of the monarchy.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Professor <a href="/wiki/Giles_Ji_Ungpakorn" title="Giles Ji Ungpakorn">Giles Ji Ungpakorn</a> went into exile in 2007 after his book, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Coup_for_the_Rich&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Coup for the Rich (page does not exist)">A Coup for the Rich</a></i>, questioned Bhumibol's role in the 2006 coup.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2011, <a href="/wiki/Worachet_Pakeerat" class="mw-redirect" title="Worachet Pakeerat">Worachet Pakeerat</a>, a law lecturer, banded together with same-minded lecturers and formed the <a href="/wiki/Nitirat_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Nitirat Group">Nitirat Group</a>, aiming to amend the <i>lèse-majesté</i> law. He proposed reducing the maximum jail term to three years, a circumstance for pardoning, and that only the Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary could file a complaint. His actions angered many people. In February 2012, he was assaulted in broad daylight in Bangkok.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the government of <a href="/wiki/Yingluck_Shinawatra" title="Yingluck Shinawatra">Yingluck Shinawatra</a>, the number of arrests and convictions for <i>lèse-majesté</i> offences declined significantly.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW14_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW14-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she said she would not seek to reform the law.<sup id="cite_ref-BP115_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BP115-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were 478 cases in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thai-coup-detat-2014-social-media-banner.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Thai-coup-detat-2014-social-media-banner.jpg/260px-Thai-coup-detat-2014-social-media-banner.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Thai-coup-detat-2014-social-media-banner.jpg/390px-Thai-coup-detat-2014-social-media-banner.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Thai-coup-detat-2014-social-media-banner.jpg/520px-Thai-coup-detat-2014-social-media-banner.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2606" data-file-height="1971" /></a><figcaption>A banner in Bangkok warns readers that using social media to "like" or "share" anti-monarchist content could land them in prison. The banner asks people to "join together to protect the monarchy".</figcaption></figure> <p>In May 2014, the <a href="/wiki/National_Council_for_Peace_and_Order" title="National Council for Peace and Order">National Council for Peace and Order</a> (NCPO), the <a href="/wiki/Military_junta" title="Military junta">military junta</a>, granted authority to a military tribunal to prosecute <i>lèse-majesté</i> in Thailand.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Military courts routinely imposed harsher sentences than civilian courts would. In August 2015, the Bangkok Military Court sentenced Pongsak Sriboonpeng to 60 years in prison for his six Facebook postings (later reduced to 30 years, when he pleaded guilty). This was Thailand's longest recorded sentence for <i>lèse-majesté</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The courts were dubbed "<a href="/wiki/Kangaroo_court" title="Kangaroo court">kangaroo courts</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Time14_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time14-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The military government has never successfully extradited someone living abroad.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>iLaw, a Thai non-profit organisation, reported that the junta hold persons in custody for seven days without charges. <a href="/wiki/Secret_trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret trials">Secret trials</a> were held. Officials seized personal communication devices to search for incriminating evidence.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2014, the parents of <a href="/wiki/Srirasmi_Suwadee" title="Srirasmi Suwadee">Srirasmi Suwadee</a>, formerly a Thai princess, were sentenced for "insulting the royal family and lodging a malicious claim".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, <i>Prachatai</i> published an infographic showing that bathroom <a href="/wiki/Graffiti" title="Graffiti">graffiti</a>, a hand gesture, a hearsay report of a taxi conversation, and not standing during the playing of the <a href="/wiki/Sansoen_Phra_Barami" title="Sansoen Phra Barami">royal anthem</a>, among other things, could be punished as acts of <i>lèse-majesté</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A nurse wearing black on <a href="/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej" title="Bhumibol Adulyadej">Bhumibol Adulyadej</a>'s birthday was charged with <i>lèse-majesté</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The last formal attempt to amend the law occurred in May 2012 when more than 10,000 people signed a petition to parliament, but Speaker of the House of Representatives, Somsak Kiatsuranont, dismissed it citing that amendment of the law concerning the monarchy was not a <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_right" title="Constitutional right">constitutional right</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10QA_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10QA-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_under_Vajiralongkorn">Use under Vajiralongkorn</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Use under Vajiralongkorn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 2016, Jatupat "Pai" Boonpattararaksa, a rights group member, was accused of <i>lèse-majesté</i> for sharing a BBC Thai biography of Thailand's new king, <a href="/wiki/Vajiralongkorn" title="Vajiralongkorn">Vajiralongkorn</a>. He was the only person to be arrested even though more than 2,600 people also shared the story, as well as the publisher BBC Thai, which did not face prosecution.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2017, the military junta stated that merely viewing material is considered lèse-majesté and is a violation of the law.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of November 2018, at least 127 people have been charged with <i>lèse-majesté</i> since the latest coup.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, there was a case of a 14-year-old who was accused of <i>lèse-majesté</i> for burning down a royal decoration arch in <a href="/wiki/Khon_Kaen" title="Khon Kaen">Khon Kaen</a>. This was the first prosecution of a minor.<sup id="cite_ref-tlhr60_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tlhr60-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A lawyer who did not accept legal proceeding claiming that the court act in the name of the King who had conflict of interest in such cases, thus impartial and unjust.<sup id="cite_ref-tlhr60_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tlhr60-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were several low-profile instances where the authorities did not prosecute, but used other intimidation methods instead, such as holding the individual in military custody for seven days, checking for communication devices, asking them to unfollow a Facebook page, or asking them to make a video expressing loyalty to the monarch.<sup id="cite_ref-tlhr60_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tlhr60-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of November 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, a total of 38 of these cases, 34.2 per cent, were in the military court system.<sup id="cite_ref-PE-20171115_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PE-20171115-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Attorney General's directive, dated 21 February 2018, issued a new guideline for prosecution. Now, only the Attorney General can file a <i>lèse-majesté</i> case. In June 2018, a new regulation was issued, allowing public persecutors to decide against prosecuting cases that did not serve the public interest.<sup id="cite_ref-tlhr_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tlhr-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unprecedented moves followed, including dismissal of <i>lèse-majesté</i> cases even though the defendants pleaded guilty, and those charged had received bail in certain cases.<sup id="cite_ref-tlhr_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tlhr-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the authorities now favour invoking other laws instead, such as the Computer Crime Act and the <a href="/wiki/Sedition" title="Sedition">sedition</a> law.<sup id="cite_ref-tlhr_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tlhr-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 15 June 2020, Thai prime minister and former <a href="/wiki/2014_Thai_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2014 Thai coup d'état">2014 Thai coup d'état</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Prayut_Chan-o-cha" title="Prayut Chan-o-cha">Prayut Chan-o-cha</a> confirmed this stance, stating that <a href="/wiki/King_Vajiralongkorn" class="mw-redirect" title="King Vajiralongkorn">King Vajiralongkorn</a> had called for no further use of Section 112.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Forced_disappearance" class="mw-redirect" title="Forced disappearance">forced disappearance</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wanchalearm_Satsaksit" title="Wanchalearm Satsaksit">Wanchalearm Satsaksit</a>, an alleged <i>lèse-majesté</i> offender, in June 2020, #ยกเลิก112 (repeal 112) trended first on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> in Thailand with more than 500,000 retweets, as netizens believed his accusations motivated his abduction.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August, <a href="/wiki/2020_Thai_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Thai protests">protests</a> against the government included calls to reform the monarchy, including the abolition of Article 112.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ekachai_Hongkangwan,_Arnon_Nampa,_and_Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ekachai_Hongkangwan%2C_Arnon_Nampa%2C_and_Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk.png/220px-Ekachai_Hongkangwan%2C_Arnon_Nampa%2C_and_Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ekachai_Hongkangwan%2C_Arnon_Nampa%2C_and_Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk.png/330px-Ekachai_Hongkangwan%2C_Arnon_Nampa%2C_and_Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ekachai_Hongkangwan%2C_Arnon_Nampa%2C_and_Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk.png/440px-Ekachai_Hongkangwan%2C_Arnon_Nampa%2C_and_Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk.png 2x" data-file-width="468" data-file-height="385" /></a><figcaption><i>Lèse-majesté</i> victims, Ekachai Hongkangwan, <a href="/wiki/Arnon_Nampa" title="Arnon Nampa">Arnon Nampa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Somyot_Prueksakasemsuk" title="Somyot Prueksakasemsuk">Somyot Prueksakasemsuk</a> got bail on 2 November 2020</figcaption></figure> <p>Anchan P. was handed 87-year prison sentence for uploading and sharing videos on the internet of an online talk show after she had been detained in jail for nearly four years from 2015. Then, in 2021, the court reduced her conviction by half to 43 and a half years due to her guilty plea. The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Committee" title="United Nations Human Rights Committee">UN Human Rights Committee</a> has declared that "imprisonment is never an appropriate penalty" for <i>lèse-majesté</i> cases.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2021, ousted opposition political leader <a href="/wiki/Thanathorn_Juangroongruangkit" title="Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit">Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit</a> was charged with <i>lèse-majesté</i> after criticizing <a href="/wiki/Prayut_Chan-o-cha" title="Prayut Chan-o-cha">Prayut Chan-o-cha</a>'s government's mismanagement of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Thailand" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand">COVID-19</a> <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Thailand" title="COVID-19 vaccination in Thailand">vaccination</a> by relying too much on the <a href="/wiki/AstraZeneca_vaccine" class="mw-redirect" title="AstraZeneca vaccine">AstraZeneca vaccine</a>, which <a href="/wiki/Siam_Bioscience" title="Siam Bioscience">Siam Bioscience</a>, owned by the King, supplies the amount of, even with a lack of vaccine experience. <a href="/wiki/Royal_Thai_Police" title="Royal Thai Police">The Royal Thai Police</a> charged him for publishing his 18 January Facebook Live stream.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, <a href="/wiki/Puttipong_Punnakanta" title="Puttipong Punnakanta">Puttipong Punnakanta</a> filed the charge through <a href="/w/index.php?title=Technology_Crime_Suppression_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Technology Crime Suppression Division (page does not exist)">Technology Crime Suppression Division</a> and the court ordered that the video be taken down.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, in August 2021, <a href="/wiki/Thanathorn_Juangroongruangkit" title="Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit">Thanathorn</a> faced two more <i>lèse-majesté</i> charges for the same act.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Prayuth_Chan-o-cha" class="mw-redirect" title="Prayuth Chan-o-cha">Prayuth Chan-o-cha</a> revived <i>lèse-majesté</i> law in response to the <a href="/wiki/2020-2021_Thai_protests" class="mw-redirect" title="2020-2021 Thai protests">2020-2021 Thai protests</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2020revival_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020revival-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of the particular law, by the end of 2021, the leading figures <a href="/wiki/Arnon_Nampa" title="Arnon Nampa">Arnon Nampa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panupong_Jadnok" title="Panupong Jadnok">Panupong Jadnok</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parit_Chiwarak" title="Parit Chiwarak">Parit Chiwarak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jatupat_Boonpattararaksa" title="Jatupat Boonpattararaksa">Jatupat (Pai Dao Din)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panusaya_Sithijirawattanakul" title="Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul">Panusaya</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Benja_Apan" title="Benja Apan">Benja Apan</a> were all detained awaiting trial in series of <a href="/wiki/Arbitrary_arrest_and_detention" title="Arbitrary arrest and detention">detainments and releases</a>, some were imprisoned accumulatively for more than 300 days.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since November 2020, Thailand has charged at least 173 people for <i>lèse-majesté</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 14 May 2024, <a href="/wiki/Netiporn_Sanesangkhom" title="Netiporn Sanesangkhom">Netiporn Sanesangkhom</a>, a Thai activist charged with <i>lèse-majesté</i>, died in detention after months-long hunger strike calling for reform of the justice system and protest against imprisonment of political dissenters.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/2023_Thai_general_election" title="2023 Thai general election">2023 Thai general election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Move_Forward_Party" title="Move Forward Party">Move Forward Party</a>, a progressive party which gained the most seats, was repeatedly rejected forming a coalition government because of the platform to amend the <i>lèse-majesté</i> law.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2024, the Constitutional Court ordered the party to cease any effort to amend the law.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year, the Constitutional Court dissolved the party.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Statistics">Statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Statistics of <i>lèse-majesté</i> cases in Thailand<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 17">: 17 </span></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>New cases</th> <th>Conviction </th></tr> <tr> <td>1984–1989</td> <td>30</td> <td>15/19 (78.95%) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990–1994</td> <td>26</td> <td>18/19 (94.74%) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995–1999</td> <td>32</td> <td>21/23 (91.30%) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000–2005</td> <td>29</td> <td>15/16 (93.75%) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social_context_and_impact">Social context and impact</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Social context and impact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_immunity" title="Sovereign immunity">Sovereign immunity</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2012_CM_Governors_reception_for_HM%27s_birthday_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/2012_CM_Governors_reception_for_HM%27s_birthday_02.jpg/260px-2012_CM_Governors_reception_for_HM%27s_birthday_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/2012_CM_Governors_reception_for_HM%27s_birthday_02.jpg/390px-2012_CM_Governors_reception_for_HM%27s_birthday_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/2012_CM_Governors_reception_for_HM%27s_birthday_02.jpg/520px-2012_CM_Governors_reception_for_HM%27s_birthday_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>The late King <a href="/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej" title="Bhumibol Adulyadej">Bhumibol Adulyadej</a> was accorded an almost divine reverence,<sup id="cite_ref-Head-20071205_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Head-20071205-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which still holds true today.</figcaption></figure> <p>According to King Rama IV, insults to the king are also insults to his power source — the people. The king felt every subject is also insulted.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 26–7">: 26–7 </span></sup> </p><p>David Streckfuss, a scholar on Thai human rights and politics, commented that <i>lèse-majesté</i> is one factor defining neo-absolutism in Thailand.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 110">: 110 </span></sup> <i>Lèse-majesté</i> is used in less democratic monarchies to protect the system of power.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 113">: 113 </span></sup> Thai mainstream media has supported the use of the law and avoid covering it.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 117">: 117 </span></sup> The media do not discuss the role of the monarchy in politics, thus creating a distorted view of the political scene.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 117">: 117 </span></sup> <i>Lèse-majesté</i> and communism were once the definition of the ultimate <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">traitor</a>. With the decline of communism, however, <i>lèse-majesté</i> began to define new kinds of traitors.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 127">: 127 </span></sup> </p><p>Michael Kelly Connors, a professor in social science at the University of Nottingham, wrote the king had a dual position—an agent of political and economic interests and the soul of the nation showing the glaring disparity between social classes, and thus required controlled imagery. The stage-managed role of the monarch, the compulsory respect shown to the institution, and the pressure of social conformity left many people with a taste of bitterness which few felt confident to express. Thai elites feared the Thai monarchy would be subjected to mockery once it was open to scrutiny, just like the British monarchy.<sup id="cite_ref-Connors_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connors-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 133–4">: 133–4 </span></sup> </p><p>Streckfuss and Preechasilpakul wrote that <i>lèse-majesté</i> remains the most potent political charge in Thailand and the number of charges increased in times of political <a href="/wiki/Upheaval" title="Upheaval">upheaval</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CMU_15-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CMU-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> Human rights groups say the <i>lèse-majesté</i> laws have been used as a political weapon to stifle <a href="/wiki/Free_speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Free speech">free speech</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-explained_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-explained-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Political scientist <a href="/wiki/Giles_Ungpakorn" class="mw-redirect" title="Giles Ungpakorn">Giles Ungpakorn</a> noted that "the <i>lèse-majesté</i> laws are not really designed to protect the institution of the monarchy. In the past, the laws have been used to protect governments and to shield military coups from lawful criticism. This whole [royal] image is created to bolster a conservative elite well beyond the walls of the palace."<sup id="cite_ref-frenchmanjail_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-frenchmanjail-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Connors argued that while some have used it as a political weapon, it has always been in the interests of the palace.<sup id="cite_ref-Connors_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connors-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 134">: 134 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contemporary_scope_of_the_law">Contemporary scope of the law</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Contemporary scope of the law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <blockquote class="quote-frame pullquote" style="font-size: 95%; padding: 0.5em 2em; background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #f8f9fa ); color: var( --color-base, black ); border: 1px solid #aaa; display:table; float:right; width:30%;"><div style="padding: 0.6em 1em;"> "Article 112 of the Criminal Code is a legislation which supports Article 8 of the Constitution<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for practical implementation, so there are no grounds to claim it violates or is inconsistent with Article 8 of the Constitution."<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 20">: 20 </span></sup><br /><cite style="display: block; text-align: right;"> — A Constitutional Court decision in 2012.</cite></div></blockquote> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <caption>Comparison of <i>lèse-majesté</i> laws<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 115">: 115 </span></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Country</th> <th>Max. jail term (years) </th></tr> <tr> <td>Netherlands</td> <td>0.3<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Denmark</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Spain</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Morocco</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Norway</td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sweden</td> <td>6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Thailand</td> <td>15 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Section 112 of Thai Criminal Code currently reads as follows: </p> <blockquote><p>"Whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to fifteen years."</p></blockquote> <p>As <i>lèse-majesté</i> is one of the offences relating to the security of the kingdom, according to Section 7 of the Thai Criminal Code. Even alleged offences committed outside the kingdom can be punished within Thailand. Thai courts have demonstrated they will prosecute and jail even non-Thai citizens for offences committed outside of the kingdom as proven in the case against American citizen Joe Gordon who police arrested in May 2011 when he visited Thailand for medical treatment. The court later sentenced him to five years in jail.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_2011_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_2011-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David Streckfuss opined that lèse majesté law is not necessarily controversial, even some Western democratic countries seem to have severe jail punishment, if rarely used.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 119">: 119 </span></sup> </p><p>In 2007, a controversy arose over whether criticism of members of King Bhumibol's <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Thailand" title="Privy Council of Thailand">privy council</a> also constituted criticism of Bhumibol.<sup id="cite_ref-foes_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foes-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Police Special Branch Commander Lt Gen Theeradech Rodpho-thong, who refused to file charges of <i>lèse-majesté</i> against activists who launched a petition to oust Privy Council President <a href="/wiki/Prem_Tinsulanonda" title="Prem Tinsulanonda">Prem Tinsulanonda</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-nationxyz_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nationxyz-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was demoted within days of the incident by Police Commander <a href="/wiki/Seripisut_Temiyavet" class="mw-redirect" title="Seripisut Temiyavet">Seripisut Temiyavet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nationabc_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nationabc-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Thailand" title="Supreme Court of Thailand">Supreme Court of Thailand</a> decided in 2013 that the law also applies to all previous monarchs, further broadening the law's reach. </p><p>In 2013, a man was found guilty of "preparing and <a href="/wiki/Attempt" title="Attempt">attempting</a>" to commit an act of <i>lèse-majesté</i>. He had images and captions deemed <i>lèse-majesté</i> in his electronic device—which, his accusers said, potentially could have been spread online. He was found guilty despite the law providing that mere preparation of the act is not a legal offence.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, a singer and activist, in addition to his prison sentence for defaming the monarchy, was ordered to write a song promoting "national reconciliation" after completing his sentence. The court order to write a song is outside the scope of the punishments in the Criminal Code.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Comments on the <a href="/wiki/Sufficiency_economy" title="Sufficiency economy">sufficiency economy</a> theory published by King Bhumibol Adulyadej can also lead to <i>lèse-majesté</i> prosecution, as in the case of <a href="/wiki/Udom_Taepanich" title="Udom Taepanich">Udom Taepanich</a> in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because of the uncertain and unpredictable nature of the offense charges, defendants often do not contest them and plead guilty.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 43">: 43 </span></sup> <i>Lèse-majesté</i> leads to self-censorship and <a href="/wiki/Vigilantism" title="Vigilantism">vigilantism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-นพพล_14-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-นพพล-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 43–4">: 43–4 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legal_proceedings">Legal proceedings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legal proceedings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013, a person filed <i>lèse-majesté</i> charges against his own brother, showing how easily the law can be misused, and that the law has now become a potential weapon in family feuds. Often the police, courts, and prosecutors are afraid they will be accused of disloyalty to the monarch if they fail to prosecute allegations of <i>lèse-majesté</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-HRW14_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HRW14-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, there are <a href="/wiki/Cyberbullying" title="Cyberbullying">cyberbullying</a> cases where fake accounts were created and <i>lèse-majesté</i> material was posted to create misunderstanding that the person actually committed a crime.<sup id="cite_ref-tlhr1mo_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tlhr1mo-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Article 14 of the Computer Crimes Act BE 2550 (2007), which broadly bars the circulation through computer systems of information and material deemed detrimental to national security, has also been used to prosecute cases of <i>lèse-majesté</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There have been occasions when <i>lèse-majesté</i> cases have been transferred to court-martial, most recently during the National Council for Peace and Order regime after the 2014 coup. There are differences between court-martial decisions compared to civilian court ones, including protection of any previous monarchs. Alleged counts are considered separately, making the punishment twice as harsh; the right to bail is restricted in wartime.<sup id="cite_ref-ศาลทหาร_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ศาลทหาร-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even so, pre-trial detentions are widespread and requests for bail are difficult; recent offenders used hunger strike to highlight the issue.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Detainees are seen barefoot and shackled at the ankles when brought to court.<sup id="cite_ref-Time14_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time14-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The courts sometimes use <a href="/wiki/Videoconferencing" class="mw-redirect" title="Videoconferencing">videoconferencing</a> systems for court proceedings, so that defendants do not have to be physically present in the court. Two detainees have <a href="/wiki/Death_in_custody" title="Death in custody">died in military custody</a>. One hanged himself, and the other died of a <a href="/wiki/Blood_infection" class="mw-redirect" title="Blood infection">blood infection</a>, according to his <a href="/wiki/Autopsy" title="Autopsy">autopsy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Judges have also said the accuser did not necessarily have to prove the information was factual claiming, "because if it is true, it is more defamatory, and if it isn't true, then it's super-defamatory".<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Asked why the Criminal Court did not grant the benefit of the doubt to the defendant in the case of <a href="/wiki/Ampon_Tangnoppakul" title="Ampon Tangnoppakul">Ampon Tangnoppakul</a>, Court of Justice spokesperson Sitthisak Wanachaikit replied: </p> <blockquote><p>When the public prosecutor who institutes the proceedings can exercise his <a href="/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal burden of proof">burden of proof</a> to the extent of bringing to light the evil intent of the defendant...the defendant needs to be punished according to the gravity of the case.<sup id="cite_ref-having_no_compassion_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-having_no_compassion-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Professor Peter Leyland of SOAS, University of London and Professor Emeritus of London Metropolitan University, explained: </p> <blockquote><p>It [the lese majeste offence] can be committed entirely without criminal intent. There is no need for the prosecuting authorities to bring any evidence to bear relating to foresight on the part of the defendant with regard to the fact of the statement or conduct. [...] The police, prosecuting authorities and judges not only act in the name of the King, but there is an expectation that their loyalty to the Crown will be reflected in an outcome that confirms the dignity of the King at the expense of the accused.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 130">: 130 </span></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Pointing that Article 112 was typically deployed with politically expedient timing, rather than at the time of the supposed offense, <a href="/wiki/Jakrapob_Penkair" title="Jakrapob Penkair">Jakrapob Penkair</a>, a former minister to the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_Prime_Minister_(Thailand)" title="Office of the Prime Minister (Thailand)">Office of the Prime Minister</a> who was charged with <i>lèse-majesté</i> himself, commented: "It's not about your action; it's about the timing. They wait until the moment when you seem most vulnerable."<sup id="cite_ref-Time14_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time14-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Court proceedings are lengthy, and defendants often pleading guilty as the quickest route to freedom.<sup id="cite_ref-ilaw112_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ilaw112-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Court decisions are often overturned in the higher courts, thus lengthening the proceedings.<sup id="cite_ref-ilaw112_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ilaw112-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Civilian courts often handed sentences of five years imprisonment per count, while military courts often handed sentences of 10 years per count.<sup id="cite_ref-10QA_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10QA-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_measures">Government measures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Government measures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internet_censorship">Internet censorship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Internet censorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Thailand" title="Internet censorship in Thailand">Internet censorship in Thailand</a></div> <p>The Office of Prevention and Suppression of Information Technology Crimes maintains a "war room" to monitor for pages which disparage the monarchy. A <a href="/wiki/Web_crawler" title="Web crawler">web crawler</a> is used to search the internet. When an offending image or language is found, the office obtains a court order blocking the site. On 28 October 2008, The <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_and_Communication_Technology_(Thailand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (Thailand)">Ministry of Information and Communication Technology</a> (MICT) announced plans to spend about 100–500 million baht to build a gateway to block websites with contents defaming the royal institution.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, more than 4,800 webpages deemed insulting to Thailand's royal family were blocked.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2010, nearly 60,000 websites had been banned for alleged insults against Bhumibol. In 2011, the number increased to 70,000.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 April 2007, the Thai government blocked Thai access to <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> as a result of a video clip which it deemed insulting to the king.<sup id="cite_ref-cbsyoutube_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbsyoutube-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbcyoutube_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcyoutube-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nationyoutube_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nationyoutube-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The website of Same Sky Books, publishers of <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Same_Sky_(magazine)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Same Sky (magazine) (page does not exist)">Same Sky</a></i> magazine, was shut down after comments on its bulletin board questioned mainstream media's claims that the entire country was in mourning over the death of Princess <a href="/wiki/Galyani_Vadhana" title="Galyani Vadhana">Galyani Vadhana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2015, the court verdict against <a href="/wiki/Prachatai" title="Prachatai">Chiranuch Premchaiporn</a>, webmaster of the news website <i>Prachatai</i>, was upheld in the highest court: "an eight-month suspended jail sentence and a 20,000 baht fine". Previously, she had been jailed without bail for nearly a year for not removing—in 2008—an allegedly insulting comment from an article fast enough. Although the comments did not directly mention Bhumibol or members of his family, the court found that Chiranuch displayed an intent to insult. Arrested in September 2010, she could face up to 50 years' imprisonment if found guilty.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> blocked users in Thailand from accessing a page satirising Thailand's royal family, citing the <i>lèse-majesté</i> law. Around the same time, there was speculation that the junta was able to obtain private chat logs of Facebook users.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, the Facebook page "Royalist Marketplace" was launched as a forum by academic <a href="/wiki/Pavin_Chachavalpongpun" title="Pavin Chachavalpongpun">Pavin Chachavalpongpun</a> to discuss and criticise the Thai monarchy freely. The Thai authorities shut down access in Thailand to the Facebook page, which has accumulated around one million users. Facebook may be appealing,<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Chachavalpongpun is facing a charge of <a href="/wiki/Cybercrime" title="Cybercrime">cybercrime</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has since launched a replacement Facebook page.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abuse_of_psychiatry">Abuse of psychiatry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Abuse of psychiatry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry#Thailand" title="Political abuse of psychiatry">Political abuse of psychiatry § Thailand</a></div> <p>On July 9, 2020, <a href="/wiki/Tiwagorn_Withiton" title="Tiwagorn Withiton">Tiwagorn Withiton</a>, a Facebook user who went viral after posting a picture of himself wearing a t-shirt printed with the message, "I lost faith in the monarchy" was forcibly detained by police officers and admitted to Rajanagarindra Psychiatric Hospital in Khon Kaen.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tiwagorn is quoted as saying, "I well understand that it is political to have to make people think I'm insane. I won't hold it against the officials if there is a diagnosis that I'm insane, because I take it that they have to follow orders."<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was discharged about two weeks later.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Opinion">Opinion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Opinion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support">Support</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Support"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The stated rationale for supporting <i>lèse-majesté</i> often center around Thai identity and the presence of <i>lèse-majesté</i> and crimes against head of state law in other countries. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Borwornsak_Uwanno" title="Borwornsak Uwanno">Borwornsak Uwanno</a>, Thai legal scholar, said that countries limited free speech according to their cultural-legal circumstances.<sup id="cite_ref-David_18-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-David-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 129">: 129 </span></sup> In May 2016, justice minister <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paiboon_Koomchaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paiboon Koomchaya (page does not exist)">Paiboon Koomchaya</a> remarked on "concerns raised by United Nations Security Council member countries during the <a href="/wiki/Universal_Periodic_Review" title="Universal Periodic Review">Universal Periodic Review</a> (UPR) in Geneva" on 11 May 2016: "that foreign countries would not understand why Thailand needs the <i>lèse-majesté</i> law because they are not "civilised" nations with cultural refinement like ours".<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Thai official said that the <i>lèse-majesté</i> law is similar to a <a href="/wiki/Libel" class="mw-redirect" title="Libel">libel</a> law for commoners. Some abuse their rights by spreading <a href="/wiki/Hate_speech" title="Hate speech">hate speech</a> or distorted information to incite hatred towards the monarchical institution. He also assert that those who are accused of <i>lèse-majesté</i> have the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_a_fair_trial" title="Right to a fair trial">right to a fair trial</a>, and the opportunity to contest the charges and assistance from a lawyer, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_appeal" class="mw-redirect" title="Right to appeal">right to appeal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An attorney said <i>lèse-majesté</i> does not go against democracy and does not know why there is activism around the law.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Rubbish_Collection_Organization" title="Rubbish Collection Organization">Rubbish Collection Organization</a>, a fascist ultra-royalist organization, supports persecution for <i>lèse-majesté</i>, and launched an ongoing online campaign of mobbing and <a href="/wiki/Doxxing" class="mw-redirect" title="Doxxing">doxxing</a> victims, together with other methods of intimidation.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A judge in a 2016 <i>lèse-majesté</i> case, when a man was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison said he would have given him a longer sentence, but the court's deputy president advised him on giving a shorter term.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Opposition">Opposition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Opposition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>lèse-majesté</i> law is described as "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/draconian" class="extiw" title="wikt:draconian">draconian</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> considers anyone jailed for insulting Bhumibol to be a <a href="/wiki/Political_prisoner" title="Political prisoner">political prisoner</a>; if they had a peaceful expression and intent, a <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_conscience" title="Prisoner of conscience">prisoner of conscience</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sulak_Sivaraksa" title="Sulak Sivaraksa">Sulak Sivaraksa</a>, a Thai social activist, said that he felt sad that most Thai intellectuals did not see any harm in this law, calling them "docile livestock."<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/UN_Special_Rapporteur" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Special Rapporteur">Special Rapporteur</a> on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, <a href="/wiki/David_Kaye_(law_professor)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Kaye (law professor)">David Kaye</a>, commenting "Public figures, including those exercising the highest political authority, may be subject to criticism, and the fact that some forms of expression are considered to be insulting to a public figure is not sufficient to justify restrictions or penalties." Kaye went on to say that such laws, "have no place in a democratic country" and called for Thailand to repeal them.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2015, <a href="/wiki/Glyn_T._Davies" title="Glyn T. Davies">Glyn T. Davies</a>, the US ambassador to Thailand, gave a speech criticising the long prison sentences handed to those found guilty of <i>lèse-majesté</i>. Police then investigated him.<sup id="cite_ref-ambassador_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ambassador-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Activists against the law or those who seek to reform it include: Mainueng Kor Kunatee (a poet who was assassinated in 2014);<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Somsak Jeamteerasakul; Giles Ji Ungpakorn;<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pavin_Chachavalpongpun" title="Pavin Chachavalpongpun">Pavin Chachavalpongpun</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a former diplomat, and an associate professor at the <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_University" title="Kyoto University">Kyoto University</a> and a leader of a campaign to abolish Article 112 of the Thai criminal code; and The Nitirat group—an association of law lecturers who campaign for constitutional reform and a change of Thailand's <i>lèse-majesté</i> law–including <a href="/wiki/Worachet_Pakeerut" title="Worachet Pakeerut">Worachet Pakeerut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piyabutr_Saengkanokkul" title="Piyabutr Saengkanokkul">Piyabutr Saengkanokkul</a>, and Sawatree Suksri.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During 2020–2021 Thai protests, demands on reform of the monarchy, which included reform or abolition of <i>lèse-majesté</i> law, were part of the protest goals.<sup id="cite_ref-prachatai_11082020_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-prachatai_11082020-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Satirical_reaction">Satirical reaction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Satirical reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Not The Nation</i>, an anonymous website<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirises</a> a Thai newspaper, <a href="/wiki/The_Nation_(Thailand)#Satirical_Reaction" title="The Nation (Thailand)"><i>The Nation</i></a>, satirised the media and the public response to the case of <a href="/wiki/Thai_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Thai American">Thai American</a> Joe Gordon in contrast to that paid to the drug-related case of Australian <a href="/wiki/Schapelle_Corby#Media_and_public_response" title="Schapelle Corby">Schapelle Corby</a> and to the pardoning of Greek-Cypriot-Australian <a href="/wiki/Harry_Nicolaides#Pardon" title="Harry Nicolaides">Harry Nicolaides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NTN_Joe_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NTN_Joe-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>NTN</i> later satirised <a href="/wiki/Plea_bargain" title="Plea bargain">plea bargaining</a> in the "Uncle SMS" case.<sup id="cite_ref-NTN_SMS_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NTN_SMS-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2013, <i>NTN</i> circumvented the chilling effect of LMIT on discussion of <a href="/wiki/1924_Palace_Law_of_Succession" title="1924 Palace Law of Succession">succession</a> with a discussion of the abdication of royal dog <a href="/wiki/Thong_Daeng" class="mw-redirect" title="Thong Daeng">Thong Daeng</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2014, British comedian <a href="/wiki/John_Oliver_(comedian)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Oliver (comedian)">John Oliver</a> described Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn as a "buffoon" and showed the leaked video of Vajiralongkorn and his topless wife celebrating the birthday of the prince's poodle, <a href="/wiki/Fufu_(dog)" title="Fufu (dog)">Air Chief Marshal Foo Foo</a>, in a satirical piece about monarchy in general on <i><a href="/wiki/Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Oliver" title="Last Week Tonight with John Oliver">Last Week Tonight with John Oliver</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Thai military government described Oliver as "undermining the royal institution", to which Oliver responded by saying: "It seems my Thailand vacation is going to have to be postponed very much indefinitely. If I can bring down your monarchy, you have—at best—a wobbly monarchy."<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_controversies">Related controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Related controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Charoen_Pokphand" title="Charoen Pokphand">Charoen Pokphand (CP) group</a> is alleged to have supported Section 112 via a CP Freshmart marketing discount campaign that ran from 12–15 February 2021 titled "LOVE112" that offered a 112 baht discount for online purchases worth at least 666 baht.<sup id="cite_ref-Prachatai_English_2021_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prachatai_English_2021-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Abolition_campaign">Abolition campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Abolition campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 5 November 2021, the law activist group <a href="/w/index.php?title=ILaw&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ILaw (page does not exist)">iLaw</a> launched the first ever campaign to abolish Section 112 of the Penal Code through an <a href="/wiki/Popular_initiative" title="Popular initiative">initiative petition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The petition attracted more than 100,000 subscribers overnight, despite Thai law merely requiring 10,000 signatures for the petition to be submitted to the parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_prosecuted_l%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_cases_in_Thailand" title="List of prosecuted lèse majesté cases in Thailand">List of prosecuted lèse majesté cases in Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Thailand" title="Censorship in Thailand">Censorship in Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyber_Scouts_(Thailand)" title="Cyber Scouts (Thailand)">Cyber Scouts (Thailand)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Thailand" title="Human rights in Thailand">Human rights in Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Gaurs" title="Red Gaurs">Red Gaurs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rubbish_Collection_Organization" title="Rubbish Collection Organization">Rubbish Collection Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nawaphon" title="Nawaphon">Nawaphon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Sanction_(Thailand)" title="Social Sanction (Thailand)">Social Sanction (Thailand)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netiporn_Sanesangkhom" title="Netiporn Sanesangkhom">Netiporn Sanesangkhom</a>, an activist who died during a hunger strike in 2024, opposed to the <i>lèse-majesté</i> laws</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 January</span> 2018</span>. <q><p>EMBASSY STATEMENT ON U.S. CITIZEN JOE GORDON</p><p>The United States is disappointed by the prosecutor's decision to file lese majeste charges against U.S. citizen Joe Gordon. We have discussed Mr. Gordon's case extensively with Thai authorities, stressing at every possible opportunity his rights as an American citizen. We urge the Thai authorities to ensure freedom of expression is respected and that Mr. Gordon, a U.S. citizen, receives fair treatment.</p></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Facebook&rft.atitle=EMBASSY+STATEMENT+ON+U.S.+CITIZEN+JOE+GORDON&rft.date=2011-08-19&rft.au=RealJoeGordon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FREALJOEGORDON%2Fphotos%2Fa.639107602806034.1073741827.639103739473087%2F1698502280199889%2F%3Ftype%3D3%26theater&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NTN_SMS-121"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-NTN_SMS_121-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnonymous2011" class="citation news cs1">Anonymous (3 December 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107043846/http://notthenation.com/2011/12/prosecutor-offers-%E2%80%9Cuncle-sms%E2%80%9D-reduced-sentence-in-exchange-for-acting-more-evil/">"Prosecutor Offers 'Uncle SMS' Reduced Sentence in Exchange For Acting More Evil"</a>. <i>Not The Nation</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://notthenation.com/2011/12/prosecutor-offers-%E2%80%9Cuncle-sms%E2%80%9D-reduced-sentence-in-exchange-for-acting-more-evil/">the original</a> on 7 January 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 January</span> 2013</span>. <q>...Under the proposed agreement, Ampon's sentence will be reduced from 20 to only 5 years if he agrees to act more evil between now and his incarceration.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Not+The+Nation&rft.atitle=Prosecutor+Offers+%27Uncle+SMS%27+Reduced+Sentence+in+Exchange+For+Acting+More+Evil&rft.date=2011-12-03&rft.au=Anonymous&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnotthenation.com%2F2011%2F12%2Fprosecutor-offers-%25E2%2580%259Cuncle-sms%25E2%2580%259D-reduced-sentence-in-exchange-for-acting-more-evil%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnonymous2013" class="citation news cs1">Anonymous (3 December 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131207075814/http://notthenation.com/2013/12/thongdaeng-abdicates-to-foo-foo/">"Thongdaeng Abdicates To Foo Foo"</a>. <i>Not The Nation</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 January</span> 2014</span>. <q>In a shocking event that may forever alter the social and cultural landscape of the Kingdom of Thailand, His Majesty the King's royal dog Thongdaeng has abdicated his position as the nation's ruling pet of state to Foo Foo, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn's longstanding dog-in-waiting.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Not+The+Nation&rft.atitle=Thongdaeng+Abdicates+To+Foo+Foo&rft.date=2013-12-03&rft.au=Anonymous&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnotthenation.com%2F2013%2F12%2Fthongdaeng-abdicates-to-foo-foo%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.vice.com/article/thailands-military-government-thinks-john-oliver-is-a-threat-to-its-monarchy">"Thailand's Military Government Thinks John Oliver Is a Threat to Its Monarchy"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Vice_Media" title="Vice Media">Vice</a></i>. 25 July 2014. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180619163841/https://news.vice.com/article/thailands-military-government-thinks-john-oliver-is-a-threat-to-its-monarchy">Archived</a> from the original on 19 June 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 August</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Vice&rft.atitle=Thailand%27s+Military+Government+Thinks+John+Oliver+Is+a+Threat+to+Its+Monarchy&rft.date=2014-07-25&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.vice.com%2Farticle%2Fthailands-military-government-thinks-john-oliver-is-a-threat-to-its-monarchy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/29/thai-junta-comedian-john-oliver-royal-jibes">"Thai junta unamused by comedian John Oliver's royal jibes"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>. 30 July 2014. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180619163837/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jul/29/thai-junta-comedian-john-oliver-royal-jibes">Archived</a> from the original on 19 June 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Franke, Peter (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/soai/article/view/8336">"Majestätsbeleidigung, Sulak und die thailändischen Generäle"</a>. <i>Südostasien informationen</i> (in German). <b>9</b> (2): 37. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.11588%2Fsoai.1993.2.8336">10.11588/soai.1993.2.8336</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=S%C3%BCdostasien+informationen&rft.atitle=Majest%C3%A4tsbeleidigung%2C+Sulak+und+die+thail%C3%A4ndischen+Gener%C3%A4le&rft.volume=9&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=37&rft.date=1993&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.11588%2Fsoai.1993.2.8336&rft.aulast=Arnott&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Franke%2C+Peter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcrossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de%2Findex.php%2Fsoai%2Farticle%2Fview%2F8336&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChachavalpongpun2011" class="citation journal cs1">Chachavalpongpun, Pavin (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=418981010338337;res=IELHSS">"Lese-majeste: An anachronistic but potent weapon"</a>. <i>East Asia Forum Quarterly</i>. <b>3</b> (4): 26.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=East+Asia+Forum+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Lese-majeste%3A+An+anachronistic+but+potent+weapon&rft.volume=3&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=26&rft.date=2011&rft.aulast=Chachavalpongpun&rft.aufirst=Pavin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.informit.com.au%2FdocumentSummary%3Bdn%3D418981010338337%3Bres%3DIELHSS&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreenfield2013" class="citation journal cs1">Greenfield, Kate (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/sjlta19&div=19&id=&page=">"The Runaway Lese Majeste Train: How Thailand's Lese Majeste Law Must Be Reformed in Order to Stop Its Abuse"</a>. <i>Southwestern Journal of International Law</i>. <b>19</b>: 377.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Southwestern+Journal+of+International+Law&rft.atitle=The+Runaway+Lese+Majeste+Train%3A+How+Thailand%27s+Lese+Majeste+Law+Must+Be+Reformed+in+Order+to+Stop+Its+Abuse&rft.volume=19&rft.pages=377&rft.date=2013&rft.aulast=Greenfield&rft.aufirst=Kate&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fheinonline.org%2FHOL%2FLandingPage%3Fhandle%3Dhein.journals%2Fsjlta19%26div%3D19%26id%3D%26page%3D&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHaberkorn2016" class="citation journal cs1">Haberkorn, Tyrell (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1163%2F22134379-17202003">"A Hyper-Royalist Parapolitics in Thailand"</a>. <i>Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde</i>. <b>172</b> (2–3): 225–248. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1163%2F22134379-17202003">10.1163/22134379-17202003</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/1885%2F152278">1885/152278</a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bijdragen+tot+de+Taal-%2C+Land-+en+Volkenkunde&rft.atitle=A+Hyper-Royalist+Parapolitics+in+Thailand&rft.volume=172&rft.issue=2%E2%80%933&rft.pages=225-248&rft.date=2016&rft_id=info%3Ahdl%2F1885%2F152278&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1163%2F22134379-17202003&rft.aulast=Haberkorn&rft.aufirst=Tyrell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1163%252F22134379-17202003&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStreckfuss1995" class="citation journal cs1">Streckfuss, David (1995). "Kings in the Age of Nations: The Paradox of Lese-Majeste as Political Crime in Thailand". <i>Comparative Studies in Society and History</i>. <b>37</b> (3): 445–475. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0010417500019769">10.1017/S0010417500019769</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0010-4175">0010-4175</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/179215">179215</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144930385">144930385</a>.</cite><span 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(identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-415-41425-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-415-41425-8"><bdi>978-0-415-41425-8</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Truth+on+Trial+in+Thailand%3A+Defamation%2C+Treason+and+L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-415-41425-8&rft.au=David+Streckfuss&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AL%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9+in+Thailand" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVan_Reuben2018" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Van Reuben, Regina (2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/soai/article/view/3947">"Majestätsbeleidigung im Königreich Thailand"</a>. <i>Südostasien informationen</i> (in German): 11. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" 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