In May 2011, the Royal Thai Army filed a lèse majesté complaint against Somsak Jeamteerasakul due to an open letter he had written and published on the internet in response to a Princess Chulabhorn TV interview. In the open letter, Somsak criticized the princess for attending the funeral of a pro-monarchy demonstrator in 2008, but not mentioning in her interview the deaths of anti-government protesters in the 2010 Thai military crackdown. Somsak denied the lèse majesté charges and argued that Section 112 of the Criminal Code, dealing with lèse majesté, only applies to the king, queen, heir-apparent, and regent.