The attorney-general has ordered prosecutors to appeal against the Criminal Court’s acquittal of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on a lèse majesté charge over a remark he made during an interview with a South Korean television station, which was deemed to be defamatory to the monarchy.
The Criminal Court ruled that the remark in question did not carry any content which might have defame the monarchy, but only contained some negative inferences about some senior military officers.
A prosecution committee also voted 8:2 not to appeal the acquittal by the Criminal Court.
The attorney-general thought otherwise, that there were sufficient grounds to implicate for the former prime minister, and ordered the prosecutors in charge of the case to take the case to the Appeals Court by the November 21st deadline.
Thaksin gave the interview to South Korean Chosun media in 2015.
