BANGKOK: A Thai court docket on Wednesday (October 30) acquitted a social media influencer of precise defamation over an e-commerce firm’s internet advertising, a bunch of human rights legal professionals stated.
Thidaporn Chaokovieng was charged with lèse majesté over 2022 TikTok clips selling Lazada – owned by China’s Alibaba Group – wherein she was seen carrying a conventional Thai silk costume and sitting in a wheelchair.
The group Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) stated the plaintiff had claimed the clips made enjoyable of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s youthful sister, Princess Chulabhorn.
A prison court docket on Wednesday dismissed the case towards the 30-year-old influencer as a result of the princess was not the inheritor to the throne, TLHR stated.
“The defendant’s actions didn’t represent against the law. The court docket determined to dismiss,” TLHR stated on X.
Thailand’s king, queen and inheritor are protected by among the hardest royal insult legal guidelines on this planet, and every cost carries a jail sentence of as much as 15 years.
The king has not named an inheritor to the throne, however the guidelines of succession favor male kids.
