Contempt earns 10 years in jail
A man was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in jail for posting on the Internet doctored images mocking certain members of the royal family.
The Criminal Court found Suwicha or Chinnapat Thakho, a 34-year-old resident of Nakhon Phanom province, guilty of acting in contempt of the monarchy. The defendant was found to have violated the Penal Code, the Constitution and the Computer Crime Act.
According to the lawsuit, the defendant on many occasions in August 2008 uploaded onto the Internet altered pictures of unidentified members of the royal family, in contempt of the monarchy. He was arrested in January and later confessed to the crime.
The court yesterday gave an initial penalty of 20 years' imprisonment but later reduced it by half due to the defendant's confession. Suwicha, taken from the Bangkok Remand Prison in inmate attire to attend the verdict reading, wept with his parents and relatives from Nakhon Phanom upon hearing the ruling.
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