Hej
En militärdomstol har för första gången i landets historia halverat straffet för en individ som först dömdes till 5 års fängelse för brott mot LM-lagarna, men han var å andra sidan en känd gulskjorta.
Men röda behandlas inte på samma sätt i dessa militärdomstolar, vilket framgår i denna artikel http://prachatai.org/english/node/5510?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+prachataienglish+%28Prachatai+in+English%29
Military court suspends jail term for yellow-shirt lese majeste convict
Submitted by editor2 on Fri, 02/10/2015 - 11:29
The Military Court has for the first time in history suspended the jail term for a pro-establishment yellow shirt lese majeste convict, accused of publishing a false royal statement.
The Military Court of Bangkok on Tuesday, 29 September 2015, sentenced Niran Yaowapa, a former editor of ASTV Manager Online, a yellow shirt news outlet, to five-years imprisonment under Article 112 of the Criminal Crime Code, lese majeste law, and Article 14 of the 2007 Computer Crime Act for importing illegal computer contents.
Niran was convicted under the lese majeste law for publishing a forged statement of the Bureau of the Royal Household, which stated that King Bhumibol had decided to appoint a Regent to act on his behalf on 2 February 2015. The case caused ASTV to demote Niran from his post.
Since the defendant pleaded guilty, however, the court halved the jail term to two-years and six-months. The military court also suspended the jail term for two years, reasoning that the convict tried to fix his mistake by immediately taken down the false statement from ASTV website as soon as it had been notified and issued a statement of apology.
The military court on 10 February 2015 approved custody warrants for Niran and Krit B., another lese majeste suspect accused under the same case, who is an active member of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), the main faction of the anti-establishment red shirts.
While the military court granted 2.9 million baht bail to Niran on the same day when the custody warrant for him was issued, citing that there was no flight risk, Krit was held under custody for two weeks.
Krit and his defense lawyer, Winyat Chatmontree from Free Thai Legal Aid, submitted 400,000 baht bail request, but the court denied bail, citing flight risk and severity of the case.
After the court’s decision not to grant bail to the red shirt suspect, but to the yellow shirt suspect charged under the same offenses was highly criticised as biased, the military court granted 400,000 baht bail to Krit on 17 February 2015.
The red shirt was arrested by more than ten military and police officers at his house in central Phetchabun Province on 3 February 2015. The officers interrogated him at a nearby police station for around three hours before searching the houses of two of his friends. Krit was then detained at a military camp for seven days before being detained at the Bangkok Central Remand Prison for another seven days.
The lese majeste case against Krit B. is still ongoing and the next trial on the case will be held on 19 October 2015.
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