The Supreme Court has ruled on a 112 conviction appeal by now 37 year-old Udom, a former worker at an electronic component factory. The Criminal Court and the Appeals Court had found him guilty.
On 11 November 2025, the Supreme Court not only agreed with the guilty verdict, but sentenced him to additional years in prison. Whereas the lower courts gave him 6 years, reduced to 4 years, the Supreme Court gave him 10 years.
In addition to lese majeste, Udom also faced computer crimes charges for seven Facebook posts made in late 2020 and early 2021.
The complaint against him was made by ultra-royalist stooge Phasit Chanhuaton who does this kind of thing regularly and always files complaints in remote locations, forcing the defendant to use up funds and time traveling to the court hearings.
The Narathiwat Provincial Court had Udom hauled from prison to “hear the Supreme Court’s ruling without his lawyer or family member present.”
In July 2022, the Narathiwat Provincial Court had found Udom guilty on two counts, dismissing five more, ruling “that posts that mention previous kings do not constitute an offense under the royal defamation [112] law and that it was not clear whether the image used in one post was that of King Vajiralongkorn and so Udom could not be convicted for it.” The Appeals Court agreed.
Denied bail by the Supreme Court. Udom was “held in detention pending appeal since 31 August 2023.” It then found him “guilty of an additional 3 counts of royal defamation, bringing his total prison sentence to 10 years.”
As has been the case previously, the Supreme Court invented interpretations of the 112 law. It decided that, since the lese majeste law “does not specify that it is an offense against the reigning monarch, posts that mention the late King Bhumibol are also offenses under the law.” For PPT, that’s a new legal contortion.
It “explained” this as closing a loophole:
interpreting the law as referring only to the reigning monarch could leave a loophole for defamation that might affect the current King, that damages national security as citizens who respect King Bhumibol would be unhappy, and that defaming King Bhumibol affects the reputation of the current King.
The corruption of the legal system for reasons of dopey loyalty continues apace.
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