{"id":26105,"date":"2020-12-27T20:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/27\/un-thailand-protesters-royal-insult-law-lese-majesty"},"modified":"2020-12-27T20:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T11:31:22","slug":"un-expert-urges-thailand-to-stop-targeting-protesters-with-royal-insult-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26105","title":{"rendered":"UN expert urges Thailand to stop targeting protesters with royal insult law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students among those who could face long sentences under sweeping lese-majesty law <\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s authorities must stop targeting pro-democracy protesters with draconian legal action and instead enter into dialogue, according to the UN\u2019s special rapporteur for freedom of assembly, who warned the country risks sliding into violence.<\/p>\n<p>Cl\u00e9ment Voule said he had written to the Thai government to express alarm at the use of the fierce lese-majesty law against dozens of protesters, including students as young as 16.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/27\/un-thailand-protesters-royal-insult-law-lese-majesty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students among those who could face long sentences under sweeping lese-majesty law Thailand\u2019s authorities must stop targeting pro-democracy protesters with draconian legal action and instead enter into dialogue, according to the UN\u2019s special rapporteur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,457,53,86,80,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-freedom-of-speech","category-human-rights","category-law","category-protest","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\/26105","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26108,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105\/revisions\/26108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}