A 48-year-old man was jailed for 30 years by a military court for insulting the monarchy on his Facebook page yesterday.
The jail term was commuted from the original sentence of 60 years because of his confession.
Bangkok's Military Court yesterday found Pongsak Sriboonpeng guilty of posting messages and pictures defaming the monarchy in six posts on the social-networking website.
Four of the posts were shared on his Facebook page, under the name "Sam Parr", in September 2013 and the two others in November last year.
Pongsak was apprehended on Dec 30 last year.
Under Section 112 of the Criminal Code, known as the lese majeste law, and Section 14 of the Computer Crime Act, Pongsak was sentenced to 10 years on each count with the 60-year jail term halved after he pleaded guilty, said his lawyer Sasinan Thamnithinan.
Ms Sasinan said she earlier asked the court to allow observers to hear the ruling but the request was rejected on the grounds that the case was sensitive and affected national security and peace and order.
Pongsak, a Kanchanaburi resident, previously worked for a travel agency.
He was among a list of people summoned by the National Council for Peace and Order last year but he failed to show up. The military court gave him a suspended sentence of six months and fined him 10,000 baht for his failure to report in.
In another lese majeste conviction this week, a military court in Chiang Rai province sentenced a man to five years in jail.
Samak Pantay, 48, was found guilty on Thursday of damaging a portrait of the King and Queen in July last year, lawyer Anon Numpa said.
Samak has a history of mental illness.
"He confessed to the charge so the judge halved the sentence to five years," he said, adding that Samak has been certified as being mentally ill.
In April, a businessman was jailed for 25 years for posting Facebook messages deemed to be defamatory to the monarchy.