A Thai male providing a doc sentence for disparaging the monarchy has really been struck with 3 much more prices, a authorized rights crew 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 plenty of years earlier.
The record-breaking sentence adopted plenty of years by which Thailand enhance 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,” acknowledged 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 often described as 112 in Thailand after the pertinent space of the felony code.
When Mongkol was punished in January in 2014, TLHR acknowledged 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 stored in Chiang Rai Central Prison.
He has really submitted an curiosity the Supreme Court on his earlier sentence, in accordance with TLHR.
More than 250 lobbyists have really been billed beneath lese-majeste laws provided that the 2020 demonstration movement began, in accordance with the civil liberties crew.
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