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Mother of Thai anti-junta activist charged with insulting monarchy
Political tension is building ahead of an Aug 7 referendum on a military-backed constitution, which is the first vote under the junta and a test of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s popularity. His government has threatened to jail anybody campaigning against the charter. Patnaree Chankij turned herself in on Friday after police issued an arrest warrant. In comments to TV reporters, Patnaree denied she had committed lese-majeste. The junta, which took power in a May 2014 coup, has been *****ing down on critics of the monarchy using Thailand’s strict lese-majeste law - a French term for the crime of offending the dignity of a sovereign. A**n Numpa, one of the two lawyers representing Patnaree, wrote on his Facebook profile that his client has been charged by the authorities for **t responding or discouraging a**ther Facebook user from writing an offending message on a private Facebook chat. "Someone sent you messages that may violate article 112, and you saw them, yet did **t stop or prevent them, is equal to you participating in the offence," said A**n in a Facebook post. "Are we really going to walk this path?" he said. He referred to the article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who "defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent" will be punished with up to 15 years in prison. Last year, there was international condemnation when two people received jail sentences of 25 years and 30 years on lese-majeste charges for Facebook posts about the king. Patnaree’s son is Sirawith Seritiwat, one of the leaders of a student anti-coup group and a consistent government critic. He says he has been detained and arrested at least 10 times since the army seized power. Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, an organization that represents Patnaree, said on Twitter that she would be brought to a military court on Sunday. The charges against his Mother were an example of how the military is using lese-majeste laws as a political tool, he told Reuters. "This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Mother of Thai anti-junta activist charged with insulting monarchy || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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