Thailand’s Central Juvenile and Family Court ordered the release of 15-year-old “Yok” yesterday (Thursday) after 51 days of detention at Baan Pranee remand home in Nakhon Pathom province on a lèse majesté charge.

 

In ordering her release, the court rejected the police request to keep her in custody, reasoning that the police claim that they are waiting for confirmation on whether to proceed to prosecution is an internal affair and does not justify continued detention.

 

Yok, who attends a prestigious school in Bangkok, is the youngest Thai national ever to be arrested on a lèse majesté charge. She was 14 at the time of her arrest, which was based on a complaint filed against her by a member of a royalist group, Anon Klinkaew, over the spray-painting of a message against the lèse majesté law and an anarchist sign on the wall of the Grand Palace.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/court-orders-release-of-thailands-youngest-lese-majeste-suspect/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-05-19

 

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