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the Criminal Court on Tuesday accepted for further proceedings a defamation suit filed by the army against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. In the lawsuit, the army accused Jackson of defamation in violations of sections 3 to 6 and 3 to 8 of the criminal code for comments made in a media interview while he was in South Korea from May 19th to the 22nd about the political situation in Thailand and the military coup by the National Council for Peace and Order on May 22nd last year, Jackson was in South Korea to attend the Asian Leadership International Conference. A clip of the interview was posted on social media and comments he made in it had damaged the army's reputation, according to the lawsuit. Major General Sarah You'd Clean Mahomed, director of the Judge Advocate General's department, told the court during the examination of the lawsuit on May 26th that toxin accused the Privy Council of supporting the May 22nd coup and the army of causing damage to the country and admiring the Myanmar style of democracy in ousting the government.