Thailand 's government has warned women they face up to five years in prison for taking so-called 'underboob selfies ' after the trend swept social media . The practice of photographing the lower half of one 's breasts and posting the images online has become an increasingly popular pastime in the south east Asian country . But Thailand 's military government today said it would be willing to prosecute anybody posting underboob selfies online , claiming the practice is 'inappropriate ' and will lead to prosecutions under the country 's strict computer crime laws . Banned : The practice of photographing the lower half of one 's breasts and posting the images online has become an increasingly popular pastime in the south east Asian country . Thailand 's 2007 Computer Crimes Act bans any material that . causes 'damage to the country 's security or causes public panic ' or 'any obscene computer data which is accessible to the . public ' . The culture ministry said offenders faced up to five years . in jail , but did not say how they would identify the culprits . 'When people take these 'underboob selfies ' no one can see . their faces , ' ministry spokesman Anandha Chouchoti told Reuters . 'So it 's like , we do n't know who these belong to , and it . encourages others to do the same . 'We can only warn people to not take it up . They are . inappropriate actions . ' The ministry has long been criticized for being overzealous . in its censorship of films , music , television and some Western . cultural practices in an attempt to preserve traditional values . of a country that is also infamous of its raunchy night life . Inspiration : Celebrities such as Cara Delevingne ( left ) and Suki Waterhouse ( right ) have previously posted so-called 'underboob selfies ' online . News of the underboob selfie warning comes as four Thai activists are to face military court on charges of violating junta orders banning public gatherings in what a rights group called a 'landmark case ' that could stir indignation at strict military rule . The four men are members of a group called Resistant Citizen , which has held demonstrations around the Thai capital in defiance of the government which came to power after a coup in May . The men were released by a military court in Bangkok today following police interrogation . Prosecutors asked them to report on March 27 to decide whether to press charges against the four . 'It is a landmark case . Hundreds have been sent to military court since the coup but this case is an outright persecution of peaceful expression of dissent , ' said Sunai Phasuk of Human Rights Watch .
Military government has deemed popular underboob selfies 'inappropriate ' Threatened to prosecute anybody who posts the images on social media . Comment: But the government did not say how it would identify images of women who take photographs of the lower half of their breasts .