Court throws out computer crime charge pressed by digital economy ministry in 2021
The Criminal Court on Friday acquitted Pannika Wanich, a campaign assistant of the Move Forward Party, of a Computer Crime Act violation stemming from Facebook posts she made a decade ago.
Ms Pannika, now 35, made the posts between 2013 and 2014. One contained excerpts an old song predicting the fate of the Ayutthaya kingdom.
The posts subsequently came to the attention of the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, where officials claimed…