{"id":38811,"date":"2021-11-11T01:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/thai-court-rules-calls-for-curbs-on-monarchy-are-abuse-of-freedoms"},"modified":"2021-11-11T01:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T16:26:24","slug":"thai-court-rules-calls-for-curbs-on-monarchy-are-abuse-of-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38811","title":{"rendered":"Thai court rules calls for curbs on monarchy are \u2018abuse of freedoms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional court\u2019s ruling in case against three protest leaders is denounced as \u2018judicial coup\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Thai court\u2019s ruling that protesters\u2019 calls for reform of the monarchy amounted to an attempt to overthrow it has been likened to \u201ca judicial coup\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s political establishment was shocked last year when the leaders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/thai-pro-democracy-protesters-confront-royal-visit-to-bangkok\">a wave of youthful protests<\/a> that broke a long-held taboo in calling for curbs on the royal family issued a 10-point list of demands, including that the royal budget be reduced and that the king not interfere with politics. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/10\/thai-court-rules-calls-for-curbs-on-monarchy-are-abuse-of-freedoms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional court\u2019s ruling in case against three protest leaders is denounced as \u2018judicial coup\u2019A Thai court\u2019s ruling that protesters\u2019 calls for reform of the monarchy amounted to an attempt to overthrow it has been likened to \u201ca judicial coup\u201d.Thai&#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-38811","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\/38811","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=38811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38812,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811\/revisions\/38812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}