A Thai woman is facing 20 years in jail for comments posted online criticising the Thai king, who is revered as God in the Southeast Asian country.<br /><br />Chiranuch Premchaiporn, a web master, was initially arrested in 2009, charged with being too slow to remove 10 comments from a forum on her website.<br /><br />The postings were made by other people, but under tough computer crime laws enacted after the military coup in 2006, the website's host can also be prosecuted.<br /><br />Chiranuch's verdict was delayed by a month because the judge needed more time.<br /><br />The Thai royal family is, by law, above criticism. Anyone who is caught breaking the rules is more often than not, thrown in jail.<br /><br />Earlier this month, an elderly man died less than six months into a 20-year prison sentence for sending four text messages that were deemed insulting to the monarchy.<br /><br />The death of Amphon Tangnoppakul, also known as Uncle SMS, has shone a light on the country's strict lese majeste laws, legal stipulations which criminalise the violation of the royal family and which were designed to prevent criticism of them.<br /><br />Family members of prisoners, also a growing portion of the public, are trying to push for changes to the lese majeste laws.<br /><br />Yingluck Shinawtra, the Thai prime minister, admitted to Al Jazeera in a recent interview that the law is sometimes misused.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay says from Bangkok.
