A Thai male offering a document sentence for disparaging the monarchy has actually been struck with 3 even more costs, a legal rights team informed AFP on Tuesday.
Mongkol Thirakot, 31, was punished in 2014 to at the very least half a century behind bars on imperial character assassination costs for messages made on his individual Facebook account a number of years earlier.
The record-breaking sentence followed a number of years in which Thailand increase use the debatable regulation versus pro-democracy militants in what doubters claim is a method to silence dissent.
“Police have charged him with three more counts of royal defamation over three Facebook posts from 2022,” stated Noppol Achamas from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR).
He informed AFP that Mongkol deals with at the very least 9 even more years behind bars.
The lese-majeste legislation, which guards King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close household from objection, is usually described as 112 in Thailand after the pertinent area of the criminal code.
When Mongkol was punished in January in 2014, TLHR stated it was the lengthiest prison term passed on for imperial character assassination, defeating the previous document of 43 years troubled a female in 2021.
Mongkol, that has an on-line garments shop in Thailand’s north, is presently being kept in Chiang Rai Central Prison.
He has actually submitted an interest the Supreme Court on his earlier sentence, according to TLHR.
More than 250 lobbyists have actually been billed under lese-majeste regulations given that the 2020 demonstration motion started, according to the civil liberties team.
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