{"id":21349,"date":"2020-08-04T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/thailand-protesters-openly-criticise-monarchy-harry-potter-themed-rally"},"modified":"2020-08-04T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:09:13","slug":"thailand-protesters-openly-criticise-monarchy-in-harry-potter-themed-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21349","title":{"rendered":"Thailand protesters openly criticise monarchy in Harry Potter-themed rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators issue rare rebuke in country where defaming royals is punishable by up to 15 years in jail<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at a Thai anti-government protest have demanded changes to the monarchy and called for its powers to be curbed in unusually frank public comments.<\/p>\n<p>Defaming the royal family is punishable by up to 15 years in prison under Thailand\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/09\/man-jailed-for-35-years-in-thailand-for-insulting-monarchy-on-facebook\">lese majeste<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/09\/man-jailed-for-35-years-in-thailand-for-insulting-monarchy-on-facebook\"> <\/a>laws. Police did not stop the six speakers but said any suspected offences would be investigated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/thailand-protesters-openly-criticise-monarchy-harry-potter-themed-rally\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators issue rare rebuke in country where defaming royals is punishable by up to 15 years in jailSpeakers at a Thai anti-government protest have demanded changes to the monarchy and called for its powers to be curbed in unusually frank public co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1611,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-monarchy","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21350,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349\/revisions\/21350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}