The vindictiveness of the royalist regime is on display in recent days, with officers from the Technology Crime Suppression Division slapping more charges on Mongkol Thirakhote, who has already been given a mammoth 54 years in prison on lese majeste and computer crimes convictions on 27 charges.
An earlier photo
The charges were laid against the activist and online clothing vendor at Chiang Rai Central Prison where he has been held “since 17 January 2024, after the Appeal Court found him guilty of 25 counts of royal defamation and sentenced him to 50 years. He was subsequently denied bail after the Supreme Court deemed him a flight risk.”
The three new charges are for Facebook posts made between May and September 2022. And, no surprise, the “complaint was filed against him by Anon Klinkaew, the [self-proclaimed] head of the ultra-royalist group People’s Centre to Protect the Monarchy, over three Facebook posts which Anon claimed insulted the King.”
Frankly, we do not think that this vindictiveness emerges from the police themselves. Rather, we think they are following orders from above. We at PPT have yet to work out why this man is targeted for such inhuman retribution,
Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said that on 13 January 2025, that officers informed the jailed man that he was again to be charged with 112 and computer crimes.
He faces 3-15 years on each of the three new charges, that will undoubtedly be slapped on his existing 54 years.
Political Prisoners in Thailand 
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