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 don'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
2007 computer crimes act five years
military government has deemed popular underboob selfies  'inappropriate'. threatened to prosecute anybody who posts the images on social media . strict computer laws ban 'obscene' material that could cause 'public panic'. breaking the 2007 computer crimes act is punishable with five years in jail . but the government did not say how it would identify images of women who take photographs of the lower half of their breasts 