{"id":52287,"date":"2023-02-01T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/thailand-activists-weak-condition-hunger-strike-lese-majesty"},"modified":"2023-02-01T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T12:28:03","slug":"thai-activists-in-weak-condition-on-hunger-strike-say-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52287","title":{"rendered":"Thai activists in weak condition on hunger strike, say doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed activists Tantawan Tuatulanon and Orawan Phupong are demanding lese-majesty law be repealed<\/p>\n<p>Two young Thai activists accused of insulting the monarchy are in a weak, exhausted condition and experiencing symptoms such as nosebleeds and chest pain after a hunger strike during which they have only sipped water, according to their lawyer and doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Tantawan \u201cTawan\u201d Tuatulanon, 21, and Orawan \u201cBam\u201d Phupong, 23, were accused of breaching Thailand\u2019s lese-majesty law after they held up a poster at a shopping mall asking people whether they believed that royal motorcades \u2013 which lead to road closures \u2013 create trouble for the public. Tantawan faces a second lese-majesty case over a speech she gave on Facebook live.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/01\/thailand-activists-weak-condition-hunger-strike-lese-majesty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed activists Tantawan Tuatulanon and Orawan Phupong are demanding lese-majesty law be repealedTwo young Thai activists accused of insulting the monarchy are in a weak, exhausted condition and experiencing symptoms such as nosebleeds and chest pain &#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":[41,80,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/52287","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=52287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52288,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52287\/revisions\/52288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}