{"id":27177,"date":"2021-01-21T22:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/21\/thailand-government-files-lese-majesty-suit-against-banned-opposition-leader"},"modified":"2021-01-21T22:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:06:04","slug":"thailand-government-files-lese-majesty-suit-against-banned-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27177","title":{"rendered":"Thailand government files lese-majesty suit against banned opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit faces prosecution for criticising role of company controlled by king in Covid-19 vaccine rollout<\/p>\n<p>A prominent Thai opposition figure who was accused of breaching the country\u2019s strict lese-majesty law after criticising the national vaccine strategy has said he is being targeted on political grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s government announced on Wednesday that it would file a lese-majesty complaint against Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, days after he questioned the country\u2019s approach to producing Covid-19 vaccines, which involves a company owned by the king.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/21\/thailand-government-files-lese-majesty-suit-against-banned-opposition-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit faces prosecution for criticising role of company controlled by king in Covid-19 vaccine rolloutA prominent Thai opposition figure who was accused of breaching the country\u2019s strict lese-majesty law after criticising the na&#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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27177","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\/27177","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=27177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27178,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions\/27178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}