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Jailed Anwar in fresh peace bid
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/05/2015
» People convicted of collaborating with insurgents in the far South should be allowed to participate in the ongoing peace negotiations between the government and separatist movements, not just those in exile, a jailed activist in Pattani prison has urged.
Elderly man gets jail for lese majeste
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/03/2015
» The Bangkok Military Court has sentenced a 67-year-old man to three years' imprisonment for writing defamatory remarks about the monarchy in a shopping mall toilet.
Politics-linked inmates get help
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/02/2015
» The Constitution Drafting Committee's (CDC) reconciliation panel pledged to help prisoners jailed for acts of political violence seek pardons after visiting them in prison yesterday.
Charged scenes as dramatist pair jailed for lese majeste
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/02/2015
» The Criminal Court has sentenced two dramatists from The Wolf's Bride political play to five years in jail for lese majeste but reduced the term by half after they confessed.
Student jailed over lese majeste net post
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/11/2014
» The Criminal Court sentenced a 24-year-old university student to two-and-a-half years in prison yesterday for posting an internet message deemed defamatory to the monarchy in March this year.
Student gets prison for lese majeste
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/11/2014
» The Criminal Court has sentenced a university student to five years in prison for lese majeste crime, then reduced it by half because he confessed.
Magazine editor loses lese majeste appeal
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 20/09/2014
» The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a lower court's 10-year lese majeste prison sentence for Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, former editor of Voice of Taksin magazine.
Inmates at Laksi hope for reprieve
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/07/2014
» Prisoners being held at Laksi temporary jail have been offered a glimmer of hope after learning that the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is considering an amnesty as part of national reconciliation efforts.
One month on, signs of repression linger
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 22/06/2014
» The quote above was one of the recent comments posted on Facebook by Sukunya Prueksakasemsuk, wife of red-shirt magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk who was sentenced to 11 years in jail for lese majeste in January last year. Somyot has been behind bars since his arrest on April 30, 2011, his bail requests denied by the court 15 times.
Court spurns Angkhana’s witness plea
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 22/05/2014
» Angkhana Neelapaijit's bid to produce additional witnesses in the trial of five police officers accused of involvement in the disappearance of her husband, human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit, has been rejected.