The court sentenced an ex-lese majeste convict to two months and 20 days in prison for failing to report to the junta in June.
The anti-coup activist is the first whom the court sentenced to imprisionment for failing to report to the junta. Unlike other people pleaded guilty for defying coup order, the court did not suspend the jail term.
Dusit District Court of Bangkok on Thursday morning sentenced Nut S., an anti-coup activist accused of defying the coup order which summoned him to report to the coup-makers in June, to two months and 20 days.
However, the court reduced the penalty by half to one month and ten days because the defendant pleaded guilty.
Nut was charged with disobeying Order No. 5/2014, which summoned him to report to the junta in late May.
During the hearing at the military court in Bangkok on 17 December 2014, he pleaded guilty as charged and the court ordered the Justice Ministry’s Probation Department to observe his behavior and submit the report to the court within 30 days.
Nut was arrested and detained by the military from 7-14 June 2014. However, on 28 June, he was arrested again and brought to the Crime Suppression Division on a charge on defying junta orders.
During a preliminary hearing on 2 September 2014, the court stated that the case was not serious and that the police and defendant could request the military to have the case dropped. The prosecutor, however, asked the court to give him a harsh sentence.
In 2009, Nut was charged with lèse majesté and under Article 14 of the Computer Crime Act for sending three lèse majesté video clips to Emilio Esteban, whom the police identified as an Englishman residing in Spain. Esteban ran the now-defunct ‘Stop Lèse Majesté’ blog.