{"id":23770,"date":"2020-10-14T01:06:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/panusaya-sithijirawattanakul-the-student-taking-on-thailands-monarchy-"},"modified":"2020-10-14T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T16:06:11","slug":"the-king-and-i-the-student-risking-jail-by-challenging-thailands-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23770","title":{"rendered":"The king and I: the student risking jail by challenging Thailand&#8217;s monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul believes she has a duty to speak out about her country\u2019s politics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/thailand-protests-everything-you-need-to-know\">Thailand protests: everything you need to know<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul decided to risk going to jail by calling for reforms to Thailand\u2019s powerful monarchy, she had no idea how people would respond. In the hours before, she felt like she might faint. After turning to her friends for reassurance, she walked on to the stage of a major protest rally in Bangkok and calmly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/12\/thailand-protesters-cross-the-rubicon-and-risk-all-to-criticise-the-monarchy\">delivered a speech<\/a> that would shake the country.<\/p>\n<p>In front of thousands of students, she called for the power and wealth of Thailand\u2019s king to be curbed \u2013 challenging an institution protected by a strict l\u00e8se-majest\u00e9 law and long considered untouchable. Its budget should be reduced, the king\u2019s private funds should be separated from the crown assets and the king should not endorse any further coups, she said, reading from a 10-point list. Criticism of the monarchy should not be forbidden, she added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/panusaya-sithijirawattanakul-the-student-taking-on-thailands-monarchy-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul believes she has a duty to speak out about her country\u2019s politicsThailand protests: everything you need to knowWhen Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul decided to risk going to jail by calling for reforms to Thailand\u2019s powerful mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1621,"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":[41,1069,80,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-protest","category-thailand","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\/23770","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\/1621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23770\/revisions\/23771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}