Supreme Court Sentences Office Worker to 3 Years 4 Months in Jail for Royal Defamation Comment

On February 18, 2026, the Lawyers' Center for Human Rights reported that the Supreme Court sentenced 'Wuttiphat' (pseudonym), a 31-year-old office worker from Ayutthaya province, to 3 years and 4 months in prison without suspension. The case involved a comment about the death of King Rama VIII, which was posted in a Facebook group called 'Royalist Marketplace' on June 2, 2020. While the lower court initially acquitted Wuttiphat of the lèse-majesté charge, the Court of Appeals later found him guilty. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, determining that the comment constituted a violation of Article 112 and was not an excessive interpretation of the law.