{"id":25081,"date":"2020-11-25T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/25\/seven-thai-activists-face-charges-of-insulting-king-on-eve-of-mass-protest"},"modified":"2020-11-25T17:53:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:53:45","slug":"seven-thai-activists-face-charges-of-insulting-king-on-eve-of-mass-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25081","title":{"rendered":"Thai activists face charges of insulting king ahead of protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summons for pro-democracy leaders are the first under lese-majesty rules for two years and come ahead of rally over monarch\u2019s wealth<\/p>\n<p>Thai police have reportedly summoned 15 prominent pro-democracy protesters to face charges under the country\u2019s fierce lese-majesty law, ahead of a major protest that will call for the king to hand over control of the royal fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s powerful and ultra-rich royal family is shielded from criticism by one of the world\u2019s strictest defamation laws, 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\/25\/seven-thai-activists-face-charges-of-insulting-king-on-eve-of-mass-protest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summons for pro-democracy leaders are the first under lese-majesty rules for two years and come ahead of rally over monarch\u2019s wealthThai police have reportedly summoned 15 prominent pro-democracy protesters to face charges under the country\u2019s fierce le&#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":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081","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=25081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25087,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25081\/revisions\/25087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}