Page 12 - Sunai Phasuk News Today

A woman in her 60s identified only as Anchan was sentenced to 43 years in prison in Thailand after she was found guilty on 29 counts.

Young Thais defiant over lese majeste clampdown As use of the draconian royal defamation law increases, young protesters pledge to keep fighting for democracy James Lovelock, Bangkok Updated: January 07, 2021 10:50 AM GMT Trending A Thai pro-democracy protester stands on the street in central Bangkok on Dec. 31 as mass political gatherings were banned after an increase in Covid-19 cases. (Photo: AFP) Thai authorities have ignored pleas by rights groups to stop their heav...

6 01 2021 The Voice of America has reported the fact that “Thai authorities January 1 made their 38th arrest of a pro-democracy activist in recent weeks under the country’s tough lèse majesté law…”. This refers to the case of “Nut,” the “Facebook administrator of a protest group and [who] was bailed out January 2 after being charged under Section 112 for selling a calendar using the movement’s satirical rubber duck symbol to allegedly mock the monarchy.” As th...

English By VOA News Share on Facebook Print this page BANGKOK - Thai authorities January 1 made their 38th arrest of a pro-democracy activist in recent weeks under the country’s tough lèse majesté law as authorities crack down on the country’s unprecedented protest movement. That law, Section 112 of the Thai criminal code, forbids defamation of the king and provides for three to 15 years’ imprisonment for violations. The law had been ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA A Thai dissident was kidnapped. When police had no answers, his sister began to investigate [Los Angeles Times :: THAI-DISSIDENT:LA] SINGAPORE — Sitanan Satsaksit kneeled outside her brother’s apartment building, her eyes lowered in prayer beneath a wide-brimmed hat. As she tried to reconstruct the events of that evening six months earlier, she heard his distressed voice in her head. They had been chatting on the phone, she back in their native Thailand and he i...

SINGAPORE —  Sitanan Satsaksit kneeled outside her brother’s apartment building, her eyes lowered in prayer beneath a wide-brimmed hat. As she tried to reconstruct the events of that evening six months earlier, she heard his distressed voice in her head. They had been chatting on the phone, she back in their native Thailand and he in his adopted home of Cambodia. An outspoken democracy activist and satirist, 38-year-old Wanchalearm Satsaksit was among more than 100 Thai dissidents who had...

December 21, 2020 06:37:30 pm Thai actor Inthira “Sai” Charoenpura was charged Monday with allegedly contravening Thailand’s lèse-majesté law which prohibits defaming the royal family despite occasions of her speaking publicly about the monarchy being unknown. The Associated Press reported that Charoenpura, among other protestors, answered a police summons to hear their charges of allegedly contravening section 112 of the Thailand Criminal Code. The heavily-criticized section provides t...

Thai actress aiding protests charged with insulting monarchy by Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul, The Associated Press Posted Dec 21, 2020 3:21 am EDT Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 3:28 am EDT Pro-democracy protest fund-raiser Inthira Charoenpura speaks from a makeshift stage outside Bang Khen Metropolitan Police Station, Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Several leaders of protest movement report to the police station to answer the charges of defaming the Thai monarchy, the most serious of m...

2020/12/21 16:20 Pro-democracy protest fund-raiser Inthira Charoenpura speaks from a makeshift stage outside Bang Khen Metropolitan Police Station, Bangkok, Thailand, ... Pro-democracy protest fund-raiser Inthira Charoenpura speaks from a makeshift stage outside Bang Khen Metropolitan Police Station, Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Several leaders of protest movement report to the police station to answer the charges of defaming the Thai monarchy, the most...

Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul December 21, 2020 - 12:21 AM BANGKOK - A well-known actress who is one of the most high-profile supporters of Thailand’s pro-democracy protest movement answered a police summons Monday charging her with violating the country’s harsh law against defaming the monarchy, even though she is not known to have spoken publicly about the royal institution. Inthira “Sai” Charoenpura, who is also a singer, has drawn both praise an...