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Teen held on 112 charge freed after 50 days

Court orders release of 15-year-old girl from juvenile detention centre

Thanalop “Yok” Phalanchai addresses supporters and media outside the Ban Pranee Juvenile Vocational Training Center for Girls in Nakhon Pathom following her release on Thursday afternoon. (Image from video by Ratsadon News Facebook)

A 15-year-old girl who had spent 50 days in detention on a charge of royal defamation walked free on Thursday afternoon after a court ordered her release, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said.

Police from the Samran Rat station had gone to the the Central Juvenile and Family Court on Thursday morning to seek the further detention of Thanalop “Yok” Phalanchai but the court rejected the…

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