As has been said previously, the military dictatorship, as well as embedding itself, has been engaged in a widespread witch hunt on lese majeste. The witch hunt is part and parcel of a lese majeste repression that marks this regime as fascist-royalist.
Over the past couple of days, there have been several lese majeste reports deserving of widespread attention.
At the Bangkok Post it is reported that the daft authorities beholden to the military junta have recommended that the British citizen, Rose Amornpat, be indicted by prosecutors.
Apparently, being “Thai-born” is sufficient for these dipsticks to waste their time with legal shows for the edification of royalist dolts. Or maybe they think that making a show of Rose’s “case” will deter others from point out that the Thai monarchy is an anti-democratic and fabulously wealthy bunch of parasites who suck up taxpayers’ funds for the amusement of a bunch of really rather strange royal family and sundry hanger-on.
If the Office of the Attorney-General indicts the British citizen, it will then cooperate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “to bring back” Chatwadee Rose Amornpat to be “prosecuted in Thailand…”. Silly, yes, but that’s how mad monarchists are.
At Prachatai an important report notes that lese majeste detainees continue to be denied bail under the military junta. It mentions three cases:
Akradet E., a third-year engineering student at Mahanakorn University of Technology, is alleged to have posted remarks on Facebook against the monarchy. A complaint was made against him in March 2014.
He has been denied bail four times since 18 July.
The Criminal Court states “there was no justification to change the refusal of bail since the defendant was an educated adult who knew of his acts and detention would prevent possible flight.”
Chaleaw J. is a 55 year-old tailor born in Chaiyaphum. He is reportedly a resident of Bangkok and a self-taught computer geek who was arrested for allegedly lese majeste materials he stored at 4shared.com, a free file sharing and storage website.
Amongst the hundreds of clips stored were online red-shirt radio programmes and a few speeches by the exiled Banphot who specializes in radical anti-monarchist diatribes. “I mostly forgot what I had stored there,” said Chaleaw.
He was detained by the junta on 3 June and charged on 9 June on lese majeste and computer crimes charges.
He has requested bail twice, and was refused, and now hoped he might get it after a third time. He said he “planned to confess once the trial began and hoped to seek royal pardon as soon as possible.”
Rung Sila is the penname of a 51-year-old poet and cyber activist. He said he was apprehended on 24 June 2014 while on his way to a neighbouring country to wait for his application for “Person of Concern” status to be processed by the UN refugee agency.
Some 40 fully-equipped officers raided and arrested his daughter, niece and nephew in Songkhla trying to grab Rung. He tried to make contact with the UNHCR to seek asylum status but was then intercepted and arrested in Kalasin.
Rung’s poems and his online articles and comments are “passionate and critical of the elite establishment.” He urges the people’s movement to move beyond the United Democratic Front Against Dictatorship. He says the UDD is “finished and the future of the country lay in the hands of individuals.”
Political Prisoners in Thailand 