{"id":23628,"date":"2020-10-09T23:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/09\/thailand-hotel-american-guest-jail-bad-reviews"},"modified":"2020-10-09T23:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:36:47","slug":"thai-hotel-agrees-to-drop-charges-against-us-man-who-faced-jail-over-bad-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23628","title":{"rendered":"Thai hotel agrees to drop charges against US man who faced jail over bad reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Koh Chang hotel to drop charges in exchange for public apology<\/li>\n<li>Wesley Barnes held under defamation and computer crime laws<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hotel in Thailand has agreed to drop charges against an American guest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/american-wesley-barnes-faces-prison-thailand-bad-hotel-review\">who face<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/29\/american-wesley-barnes-faces-prison-thailand-bad-hotel-review\">d up to five years in jail<\/a> for posting negative reviews \u2013 as long as he issues a public apology for his comments.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel, on the holiday island of Koh Chang, filed a complaint against American teacher Wesley Barnes in August after he posted what the hotel said were false and defamatory write-ups after a row over a 500 baht ($16) corkage fee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/09\/thailand-hotel-american-guest-jail-bad-reviews\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koh Chang hotel to drop charges in exchange for public apologyWesley Barnes held under defamation and computer crime lawsA hotel in Thailand has agreed to drop charges against an American guest who faced up to five years in jail for posting negative re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1611,"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":[41,93,527,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-travel","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628","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\/1611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions\/23629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}