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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

An exiled Thai professor talks about his campaign to abolish the controversial law, which criminalizes criticisms of the country’s monarchy. In Thailand, the past two years have seen more than 130 ...

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, ...

Earlier this week, hundreds of Thai protesters shouted at the royal motorcade of King Maha Vajiralongkorn in a show of unprecedented open dissent towards the monarchy as anti-government sentiment is ...

Thai university student Patiwat Saraiyaem, center, is escorted by prison officials as he arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok on Oct. 27, 2014 Editor at Large Barefoot and shackled at the ankles, ...

Amnesty International urged Thailand’s House of Representatives on Tuesday to grant amnesty to individuals accused and detained solely for political activism, including offenses related to the lèse ...

Thailand’s strict lèse-majesté laws make it a crime to insult the monarchy, an offense that includes a surprising number of activities. Related Article Thailand’s strict lèse-majesté laws make it a ...

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 ...