UCA News reports on the raid on Same Sky publishing, concluding: “Thai authorities appear to be stepping up their campaign against pro-democracy activists, especially those who are advocating monarchy reform…” adding that “[t]his week alone, police have launched crackdowns including [the] raid on [Same Sky] and the issuing of new indictments for royal defamation.”
An anonymous commentator is quoted: “This is what repressive regimes do — try to outlaw honest and open debate…”.
Clipped from Prachatai
On the lese majeste indictments, it reports:
On Jan. 18, police in the northern city of Chiang Mai charged two university students with violating the royal defamation law, which prohibits any criticism of the monarchy and prescribes up to 15 years in prison per charge.
The two students at Chiang Mai University were indicted over an artwork they exhibited last year at the university’s gallery depicting the Thai national flag with the blue stripe, which represents the monarchy, absent in the tricolor, according to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights group.
In their artwork the two students also condemned the royal defamation law, which is Article 112 of the Criminal Code, by using an expletive.
Another anonymous comment: “More political prisoners? More lives and voices stifled?”
Political Prisoners in Thailand 
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