Arnon Nampa’s youngest child runs toward the sound of shackles. The 3-year-old’s only memories of his father, a prominent human right lawyer and activist, are from seeing him in a courtroom – not from ...
The number of prosecutions for people accused of insulting the Thai monarchy has recently surged. Even Thaksin Shinawatra, the most powerful civilian politician in Thailand, could find himself facing ...
A protester with the “Stop 112” the number in the Thai criminal code for lese majeste on her face during protest in front of the Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Credit: AP ...
A Thai court on Wednesday ordered the kingdom’s most popular political party to end its campaign to amend the country’s notoriously strict royal defamation law, dashing its supporters hopes for reform ...
In Thailand, the past two years have seen more than 130 people charged with insulting the country’s monarchy – many of them student activists who led the mass protests that roiled the capital Bangkok ...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Jean-Marie Kamatali, of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, discusses the use and misuse of lèse-majesté… The bigger problem of lèse-majesté in Thailand is not, ...
Thai social critic Sulak Sivaraksa is escorted outside a military court earlier this year, when the latest lese-majeste charges against him were dropped.AP Palming a deck of cards in the courtyard of ...
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