A Thai male providing a doc sentence for disparaging the monarchy has truly been struck with 3 much more prices, a authorized rights workforce knowledgeable AFP on Tuesday.
Mongkol Thirakot, 31, was punished in 2014 to on the very least half a century behind bars on imperial character assassination prices for messages made on his particular person Facebook account numerous years earlier.
The record-breaking sentence adopted numerous years by which Thailand improve use the debatable regulation versus pro-democracy militants in what doubters declare is a technique to silence dissent.
“Police have charged him with three more counts of royal defamation over three Facebook posts from 2022,” said Noppol Achamas from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR).
He knowledgeable AFP that Mongkol offers with on the very least 9 much more years behind bars.
The lese-majeste laws, which guards King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his shut family from objection, is normally described as 112 in Thailand after the pertinent space of the legal code.
When Mongkol was punished in January in 2014, TLHR said it was the lengthiest jail time period handed on for imperial character assassination, defeating the earlier doc of 43 years troubled a feminine in 2021.
Mongkol, that has an on-line clothes store in Thailand’s north, is presently being saved in Chiang Rai Central Prison.
He has truly submitted an curiosity the Supreme Court on his earlier sentence, in response to TLHR.
More than 250 lobbyists have truly been billed below lese-majeste laws on condition that the 2020 demonstration movement began, in response to the civil liberties workforce.
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