Three-finger 112

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Prachatai reports on yet another bizarre 112 indictment.

On 28 November 2025, the Khon Kaen public prosecutor decided to indict Songpol Sonthirak, also known as Yajai, an activist from the Thalufah group, on a lese majeste complaint filed against him in April 2023.

That complaint was for him using the well-known three-finger salute at a graduation ceremony on 20 December 2022 that was presided over by Princess Sirindhorn.

As everyone knows, Sirindhorn is not covered by Article 112. However, prosecutors and the courts have never let the wording of the law get in the way of political persecution. Nor is it clear how the “Hunger Games” salute constitutes an insult to the monarch, but we are sure the legal magicians in Khon Kaen and their ministry bosses will work something (weird) out.

As is the usual practice in royalist Thailand, the complaint against Songpol was made by yet another ultra-royalist snitch, Kamon Kitkasiwat, a self-proclaimed leader of a local group of pathetic monarchists. At the time, Kamon was a candidate for the feudalist party, Thai Pakdee, which barely got a vote in the election.

During the degree ceremony, Khon Kaen University’s royalist administration “reportedly paused its live broadcast of the graduation ceremony while Songpol and subsequent graduates from the Faculty of Law were receiving their certificates, and did not allow comments on the live broadcast after it resumed.” They are not only pathetic royalists but scared witless.