{"id":41780,"date":"2022-02-17T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/amnesty-faces-pressure-to-leave-thailand-amid-growing-intolerance"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:50:54","slug":"amnesty-faces-pressure-to-leave-thailand-amid-growing-intolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41780","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty faces pressure to leave Thailand amid \u2018growing intolerance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royalist groups have organised petitions calling for Amnesty to be expelled from the country, accusing it of threatening national security <\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has said attacks against its operations in Thailand were taking place against a backdrop of \u201cgrowing intolerance for human rights discourse\u201d among the country\u2019s authorities, and warned of a clampdown on civil society groups.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty has come under increased pressure in Thailand, where ultra royalists have accused it of threatening national security and interfering in the country\u2019s internal affairs after it criticised legal cases filed against monarchy reform protesters.<\/p>\n<p>In November, prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha ordered an investigation into the NGO, while royalist groups have organised petitions calling for it to be expelled from the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/17\/amnesty-faces-pressure-to-leave-thailand-amid-growing-intolerance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royalist groups have organised petitions calling for Amnesty to be expelled from the country, accusing it of threatening national security Amnesty International has said attacks against its operations in Thailand were taking place against a backdrop of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[205,41,53,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amnesty-international","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41780","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41781,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41780\/revisions\/41781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}