Lèse-majesté in Thailand
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Lèse-majesté in Thailand
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In Thailand, lèse-majesté is a crime according to Section 112 of the Thai Criminal Code. It is illegal to defame, insult, or threaten the monarch of Thailand. Modern Thai lèse-majesté law has been on the statute books since 1908. Thailand is the only constitutional monarchy to have strengthened its lèse-majesté law since World War II. With penalties ranging from three to fifteen years imprisonment for each count, it has been described as the "world's harshest lèse majesté law" and "possibly the
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Thai prohibition on denigrating the monarch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand
date created:
2012-04-08T21:02:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T08:37:59Z
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