Lawyer cited for contempt over Facebook post

By Kanathis Srihirandet 
The Nation

 

 

Human rights lawyer Anon Nampa appeared at the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) on Wednesday to acknowledge charges against him for contempt and violation of the computer crimes law in relation to a Facebook post expressing views on cases involving student activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, known as Pai Dao Din.

Anon denied all charges, saying that he was merely exercising his right to freedom of expression. He was ready to request bail, he said, and he would maintain his stance to fight for human rights.

 

His lawyer, Somchai Homlaor, said that he observed the charges were not pressed by the Khon Kaen Provincial Court but by security officers.

 

Anon’s colleague, Natthasiri Bergman, also a human rights lawyer, raised a similar point, saying it should have been the court or one the judges to bring the charges, not the officers.

 

Even if the court had pressed the charges, Natthasiri expressed concern over its jurisdiction in the case.

 

Many activists showed up at the TCSD on Wednesday to show solidarity with Anon.

 

Anon has worked with the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), whose mission is to provide legal assistance for those prosecuted by the military-installed regime. Most were political cases involving the violation of junta orders.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30335907

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-01-10

Not long until the "re-education camps" are set up in every province.  I hope most Thai's realize how important this next election is. That is if they do not cower and let the elections get postponed again.

"Anon denied all charges, saying that he was merely exercising his right to freedom of expression."

 

Sorry pal but in Thailand there is at the moment no right to freedom of expression. The junta canceled that and many other basic human rights when they committed high treason and illegally took power.

Let's hope the day of reckoning is near and that the junta is headed for a cold and damp jail cell - the amnesty they so graciously granted themselves notwithstanding.

Still jailing their critics. But they want everyone to believe they are just another normal government. 

Tossers.

Not really a good idea picking fights with human rights lawyers. Really obnoxious and arrogant. This may come back to bite them on the arse. 

Shouldn't the sign be in Thai?

5 minutes ago, evadgib said:

Shouldn't the sign be in Thai?

In English he gets his message across to a much wider and more international (influential?) audience... 

Go figure. 

 

Just now, djayz said:

In English he gets his message across to a much wider and more international (influential?) audience... 

My point being that the domestic audience need to catch up with what the remainder regard as normal practice.

3 minutes ago, evadgib said:

My point being that the domestic audience need to catch up with what the remainder regard as normal practice.

As long as the domestic audience has enough somdam to eat, money for smart phones and games, internet connection, etc. they really 1) don't know what's happening 2) don't care about what's happening and 3) will never try to change what's happening...

So, printing these signs in Thai is a futile exercise. 

 

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

Shouldn't the sign be in Thai?

If it was, it would be an incorrect statement in the language's country of origin...

1 hour ago, djayz said:

As long as the domestic audience has enough somdam to eat, money for smart phones and games, internet connection, etc. they really 1) don't know what's happening 2) don't care about what's happening and 3) will never try to change what's happening...

So, printing these signs in Thai is a futile exercise. 

 

Maybe where you live they donot care but I doubt it as for Chiang Mai plenty of Thais are fed up with the current bunch the whole watch thing has turned them off

Edited January 10, 20188 yr by moe666

Thailand showing to the world what the leaders really are, keep it up guys a jail cell will one day come your way

43 minutes ago, moe666 said:

Maybe where you live they donot care but I doubt it as for Chiang Mai plenty of Thais are fed up with the current bunch the whole watch thing has turned them off

Its all over and Thais abroad say the same. Met over 20 yesterday at an opening of a Thai restaurant in the UK not one had a good word to say about their former home country many said they will never return there, I think that says how it really is.

Its all over and Thais abroad say the same. Met over 20 yesterday at an opening of a Thai restaurant in the UK not one had a good word to say about their former home country many said they will never return there, I think that says how it really is.

Nonsense. You spoke to 20 thais about the junta at a Party? . They would have thought you were a spy [emoji23]

 Asians DO NOT open to a random white dude and trash their country.. But you knew that already

 

 

'TLHR'? Aren't they sponsored by the Shins, like that 'alternative' attorney's organisation, attempting to make shadow to the order, and, and...

Oh, and maybe also these so-called 'citizens'', plus (mighty old...) 'students'' organisations?

Not demonizing Thaksin &Co., but, IMO, it's clear they have many 'side activities', oustside of their own(!) PTP and UDD, with the clear aim to destabilize ANY other 'power in place' (not only 'generals' as nowadays, also other political parties gaining power) than theirs, to keep the prime access to the trough for themselves.

37 minutes ago, wakeupplease said:

Its all over and Thais abroad say the same. Met over 20 yesterday at an opening of a Thai restaurant in the UK not one had a good word to say about their former home country many said they will never return there, I think that says how it really is.

Hmm, a Thai restaurant in the UK, and you don't 'wakeupplease' about how many Thais in Europe (yes, sorry, the UK is, still, part of...) are brainwashed Dhammakaya lemmings, and/or Shins' supporters, alas, much the same it seems in fact...

Well, thank you for your post anyway, now I know where you stay, and it tells a thing or two about the validity of your posts concerning what is happening inside Thailand... 

Edited January 10, 20188 yr by bangrak

3 hours ago, djayz said:

In English he gets his message across to a much wider and more international (influential?) audience... 

Go figure. 

 

Ah, that's what it is about then, not so much concerned about what's happening in Thailand really, forand with the Thai citizens, but 'playing' a 'more international (influental?) audience', hmm, and who might be very interested in such kind of 'agitation', let me guess, erm, I have a family name in mind, starts with an 'S', LOL!   

On 1/10/2018 at 6:41 PM, djayz said:

In English he gets his message across to a much wider and more international (influential?) audience... 

Go figure. 

 

Do you really think the world gives a moments thought about a small, isolated country that has no influence at all in the world of finance, business, sport, media, the arts etc etc etc.

Obviously the best way to stop activists against the government, is to prosecute the lawyers that defend them. Thereby causing a shortage of lawyers to defend them. Thereby making it easier to prosecute activists with poor defense. Thereby causing the population to refrain from activism, knowing nobody will be able to defend them. 

Follow the road map. 

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Do you really think the world gives a moments thought about a small, isolated country that has no influence at all in the world of finance, business, sport, media, the arts etc etc etc.

The world in general, no, but there are pockets of society in the West who do read about this, who do care and, in some cases, who do try to do something about it (e.g. buycott the country, write letters to the UN, organize protests in front of embassies, etc. just to show these countries that their misbehaviour hasn't gone completely unnoticed and to make more people aware of the situation). 

From small acorns grow great oak trees. 

1 hour ago, djayz said:

The world in general, no, but there are pockets of society in the West who do read about this, who do care and, in some cases, who do try to do something about it (e.g. buycott the country, write letters to the UN, organize protests in front of embassies, etc. just to show these countries that their misbehaviour hasn't gone completely unnoticed and to make more people aware of the situation). 

From small acorns grow great oak trees. 

Let us know when any country anywhere sees a protest outside a Thai embassy, or boycotts Thai goods. And what influence it has. Certainly it would have no influence on the Thais, who don't care in the slightest what foreigners think of them. They know they are superior so our view of them counts for nothing.

Edited January 11, 20188 yr by Bangkok Barry

Begining to look like Turkey and the rise of a super sultan

On 1/10/2018 at 2:55 PM, bangrak said:

Hmm, a Thai restaurant in the UK, and you don't 'wakeupplease' about how many Thais in Europe (yes, sorry, the UK is, still, part of...) are brainwashed Dhammakaya lemmings, and/or Shins' supporters, alas, much the same it seems in fact...

Well, thank you for your post anyway, now I know where you stay, and it tells a thing or two about the validity of your posts concerning what is happening inside Thailand... 

Yes wake up someone needs to, thats why the country is such a mess, you have polls over there and if you like the results you accept them and most of them are made up to suit the situation. My poll with 20+ Thais who had left their own country and come to the UK for a better life said they hated things in their own country and would not go back or words to that effect and it was 100% and it was done in conversation and they knew what was said would not get them a visit to a reeducation center.

 

They where all embarrassed as to what was attempted on myself and the 10 million scam one of your finest tried on me. They also know because of that scam I along with others have lost the love we once had for the place.

 

As for not being there, thats not my fault its one of your finest scammers fault that he and his friends including a BIB, crook lawyer and attorney which says a lot for the country if you cannot trust them who can you trust, or is trust a word many in the country do not believe in.

 

Many thais who leave home also leave the temple, again they see the money they used to give being used by others to have a great life.

 

Perhaps you should try leaving for a year and see what you feel like at the end of that year and I bet you you will not go back.

 

Sorry its just the way it is there and its getting worse.

 

I have family there and the wife has over 5000 friends and I mean friends in nursing so we know what is going on, ad that to FB accounts we can see that you cannot, there is a lot wrong there and you know it.

 

How many Thais do you think are now living in the UK? The ansert is in thousands possible 10's of and that is just the UK.

 

I hear the school bell ringing so off to school and learn please.

 

Have a nice day

On 10/01/2018 at 3:47 PM, bangrak said:

'TLHR'? Aren't they sponsored by the Shins, like that 'alternative' attorney's organisation, attempting to make shadow to the order, and, and...

Oh, and maybe also these so-called 'citizens'', plus (mighty old...) 'students'' organisations?

Not demonizing Thaksin &Co., but, IMO, it's clear they have many 'side activities', oustside of their own(!) PTP and UDD, with the clear aim to destabilize ANY other 'power in place' (not only 'generals' as nowadays, also other political parties gaining power) than theirs, to keep the prime access to the trough for themselves.

There's a known opponent sentenced to 2 years and half prison terms for sharing a BBC article and now a lawyer is charged for supporting him. And it seems you consider that the most interesting thing to write is to discredit the lawyer and the jailed opponent! (Not demonizing, of course )

 

I have no idea of who finances or not these organisation (nor do you), but they would not be mediatised (what you seem to object) if they had no cause to defend. Of course, this is a very general comment, and not particularly related to this case, which is indefendable under current standards.

Edited January 11, 20188 yr by candide

23 hours ago, candide said:

There's a known opponent sentenced to 2 years and half prison terms for sharing a BBC article and now a lawyer is charged for supporting him. And it seems you consider that the most interesting thing to write is to discredit the lawyer and the jailed opponent! (Not demonizing, of course )

 

I have no idea of who finances or not these organisation (nor do you), but they would not be mediatised (what you seem to object) if they had no cause to defend. Of course, this is a very general comment, and not particularly related to this case, which is indefendable under current standards.

There's a cause, right you are, and then, there's the reason why one comes up for it, am I wrong...?

On 11-1-2018 at 10:38 PM, wakeupplease said:

Yes wake up someone needs to, thats why the country is such a mess, you have polls over there and if you like the results you accept them and most of them are made up to suit the situation. My poll with 20+ Thais who had left their own country and come to the UK for a better life said they hated things in their own country and would not go back or words to that effect and it was 100% and it was done in conversation and they knew what was said would not get them a visit to a reeducation center.

 

They where all embarrassed as to what was attempted on myself and the 10 million scam one of your finest tried on me. They also know because of that scam I along with others have lost the love we once had for the place.

 

As for not being there, thats not my fault its one of your finest scammers fault that he and his friends including a BIB, crook lawyer and attorney which says a lot for the country if you cannot trust them who can you trust, or is trust a word many in the country do not believe in.

 

Many thais who leave home also leave the temple, again they see the money they used to give being used by others to have a great life.

 

Perhaps you should try leaving for a year and see what you feel like at the end of that year and I bet you you will not go back.

 

Sorry its just the way it is there and its getting worse.

 

I have family there and the wife has over 5000 friends and I mean friends in nursing so we know what is going on, ad that to FB accounts we can see that you cannot, there is a lot wrong there and you know it.

 

How many Thais do you think are now living in the UK? The ansert is in thousands possible 10's of and that is just the UK.

 

I hear the school bell ringing so off to school and learn please.

 

Have a nice day

Your personal undisputably valid 'poll', your wife's 5,000 real friends, I surrender, but please get back in touch when you will actually wake up, in the real world, please. Hear from you then...

Edited January 12, 20188 yr by bangrak

8 hours ago, bangrak said:

There's a cause, right you are, and then, there's the reason why one comes up for it, am I wrong...?

The reason was a young university student shared an article that estimates of 3000 people shared. 

That young man has been in prison for a very long time. Whether he was allegedly paid to share the post or the lawyer allegedly was paid to defend him is non issue. 

If taksin allegedly wants to give money to someone to share an article, produce a bowl with his name, produce a calendar, so what. It's his money. Where in the world do you hear of people going to prison for making a bowl. Going to prison for sharing a news article. going to prison making a speech. 

It's bordering on rediculous.