{"id":60520,"date":"2023-12-13T19:40:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/13\/thai-mp-rukchanok-srinork-jailed-for-insulting-monarchy-on-social-media"},"modified":"2023-12-13T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:19:07","slug":"thai-mp-given-six-year-prison-sentence-for-insulting-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60520","title":{"rendered":"Thai MP given six-year prison sentence for insulting monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rukchanok Srinork\u2019s posts on X found to have breached lese-majesty and computer crime laws<\/p>\n<p>A progressive Thai MP has been sentenced to six years in prison for insulting the country\u2019s powerful monarchy on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Rukchanok Srinork, 29, a former activist, also known as \u201cIce\u201d, was found guilty of breaching Thailand\u2019s strict lese-majesty law and its computer crimes act, according to the group Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR). The case related to<strong> <\/strong>comments posted or reposted on X, including criticism of a decision to hand a contract for manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines to a company owned by King Maha Vajiralongkorn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/13\/thai-mp-rukchanok-srinork-jailed-for-insulting-monarchy-on-social-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rukchanok Srinork\u2019s posts on X found to have breached lese-majesty and computer crime lawsA progressive Thai MP has been sentenced to six years in prison for insulting the country\u2019s powerful monarchy on social media.Rukchanok Srinork, 29, a former acti&#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-60520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520","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=60520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60524,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520\/revisions\/60524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}