The Thai police followed the pressure ordered a check into the lese majeste case against a police woman accused of defaming the monarchy on facebook, after pressure from ultra-royalists who has launched campaign to bully the policewoman, Thai media reported.
According to Matichon Online and ASTV-Manager Online, Pol Gen An-atngam, the advisor to the Deputy Commissioner General of the Royal Thai Police, on Thursday ordered the Office of Legal and Affair Litigation of the Royal Thai Police to examine the criminal case under Article 112 against Pol Col Nahathai Tanya, an Assoc Prof of the Social Science Faculty of the Royal Police Cadet Academy.
While Matichon Online did not report details of the lese majeste accusation against the Nahatai, ASTV-Manager Online said Nahatai allegedly posted lese majeste content on the facebook profiled under the name‘Doungchampa Spencer Isenberg’.
Nahatai was listed on the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s No. Order 49 along with other prominent dissidents, such as Ji Ungpakorn and Jakrapob Penkair, who were summoned to report themselves to the coup-maker in early June 2014. She was detained under the martial law for seven days.
Since last week several royalist Facebook pages and royalist media Chaopraya News revealed her personal information and bullied Nahatai and called for the authorities to prosecute her. They accused the police lecturer of using Doungchampa Facebook to post lese majeste contents. They said she was summoned because she defamed the King on that profile, but was released and allowed to continue her civil servant work.They called for the authorities to fire her from civil servant post and prosecute her.
Although they have never offered any evidence to support the allegation that Nahatai was behind Doungchampa Facebook, many people prompted to believe so and condemned her:
“You b***, no surprise why the police are all bad.”
“NCPO, take care of this immediately, she is a threat to the society.”
According to Matichon Online, Pol Lt Gen Sakda Techakriangkrai, the academy commissioner of the Royal Police Cadet Academy, revealed that Nahathai was suspended from teaching position at the academy. He added that Nahathai never show inappropriate behaviours while she was teaching at the police academy.
Meanwhile, the facebook profile ‘Doungchampa’ on Wednesday posted that she is in fact a U.S. citizen and has been working for the U.S. government for the last 15 years.
“When the lecturer went to report in with the NCPO, I still posted on Facebook -- real time. How could you say that she is me? Well, an innocent person face condemnation and bully because of such mistake?” wrote Doungchampa. She did not elaborate what the mistake was.