By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A SPLINTER group of adolescent, three-finger-raising activists were today (July 6) exonerated by court of lese majeste and mass seduction charges in regard to a questionnaire which they had evidently conducted in regard to royal motorcades running on Bangkok’s congested streets four years ago.
The Bangkok Criminal Court waived a public prosecutor’s lawsuit earlier filed against seven street activists led by a young woman named Thantawan Tuatulanond who had peacefully conducted their poll with a number of passers-by outside Paragon shopping mall in Pathumwan district of the Thai capital during the time of former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in February 2022.
The court ruled the unprecedented poll which literally asked the respondents whether royal motorcades could probably put them in trouble traffic-wise irrelevant to the lese majeste law, better known as Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or the mass seduction law and consequently judged the defendants not guilty of those charges since none of the Royal Household members was mentioned by name in the activists’ questionnaire.
Besides, the court judged the noticeable hand signal made by Thantawan and her colleagues to demonstrate a three-finger salute during a peaceful, public gathering was by no means deemed an act of persuasion which could have possibly otherwise triggered rebellion.
However, each of the seven defendants was ordered by court to pay 5,000 baht in fine for violating orders of the authorities pertaining to their street activism. The splinter group had been previously detained and then released with ankle bracelets earlier this year.
If found guilty of lese majeste charges, the convict could possibly otherwise be sentenced to a maximum of 15 years in prison and if found guilty of mass seduction charges, they could possibly otherwise be sentenced to a maximum of seven years in jail.
In Thailand and elsewhere, the three-finger gesture may specifically symbolise mass resistance to military coups and undemocratic rule.
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Ms. Thantawan Tuatulanond who together with six other street activists were acquitted today, July 6. 2026. Photos – Amarin TV
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