BANGKOK – The Royal Thai Army (RTA) has defended legal action taken against an American academic for alleged lèse-majesté, while the opposition People’s Party (PP) criticised the move, claiming it has ...

Thai Army defends lèse-majesté case against US academic Paul Chambers as opposition claims it risks harming Thai–US trade talks.

[1904] Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso and the Ode on the morning of Christ's nativity / [by] John Milton [with illustrations by R. Anning Bell]. - London: 1903 ...

BANGKOK – A US academic charged with breaking Thailand’s strict royal defamation laws will appeal ... to appeal the visa revocation,” said the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights group ...

"The Thai authorities have long used the royal insult law to abuse Thai citizens ... freedom and free speech in Thailand." The Thai army, which has staged 13 coups since Thailand became a ...

Charges under Thailand’s royal defamation law have surged in recent years and critics say it is misused to stifle dissent. Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) told AFP it is “rare” for a ...

The charges stem from a complaint filed by the Royal Thai Army’s Third Army Region, which accused Chambers of defaming or insulting the King, Queen, or royal heirs, and of importing false information ...

The Royal Thai Army has accused Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in Phitsanulok, of violating the lese-majeste law and Computer Crime Act. The Constitutional Court is set to hand ...

“The Thai authorities have long used the royal insult law to abuse Thai citizens ... Chambers’s prosecution stems from a complaint filed by the Thai army accusing him of responsibility for ...

They said that Dr. Chambers had not written the text. Days after the webinar, a unit of the Royal Thai Armed Forces responsible for internal security requested more information from Naresuan ...