{"id":24914,"date":"2020-11-19T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/thai-pm-threatens-to-use-all-laws-against-pro-democracy-protesters"},"modified":"2020-11-19T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:21:13","slug":"thai-pm-threatens-to-use-all-laws-against-pro-democracy-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24914","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM threatens to use &#8216;all laws&#8217; against pro-democracy protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments prompt concern that this could include the use of lese-majesty that bans criticism of the monarchy<\/p>\n<p>The Thai prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has threatened to use \u201call laws, all articles\u201d to take action against pro-democracy protesters, prompting fears that the kingdom\u2019s harsh lese-majesty law could be used against individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The law shields Thailand\u2019s powerful royal family from criticism with one of the world\u2019s strictest defamation criteria, under which anyone who \u201cdefames, insults or threatens the king, queen, heir-apparent or regent\u201d can face up to 15 years on each charge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/19\/thai-pm-threatens-to-use-all-laws-against-pro-democracy-protesters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments prompt concern that this could include the use of lese-majesty that bans criticism of the monarchyThe Thai prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has threatened to use \u201call laws, all articles\u201d to take action against pro-democracy protesters, promp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1704,"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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914","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\/1704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24915,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions\/24915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}