{"id":61274,"date":"2024-01-19T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/18\/man-jailed-for-record-50-years-for-criticising-thai-monarchy"},"modified":"2024-01-19T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:00:33","slug":"man-jailed-for-record-50-years-for-criticising-thai-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61274","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for record 50 years for criticising Thai monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mongkol Thirakot receives record sentence under kingdom\u2019s strict lese-majesty laws for posts on personal Facebook account<\/p>\n<p>A Thai man has been given a 50-year prison sentence for criticising the monarchy \u2013 the longest jail term handed down under the kingdom\u2019s strict lese-majesty laws \u2013 a legal rights group said.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking sentence comes after several years in which Thailand has ramped up use of the legislation against pro-democracy protesters in what critics say is a tactic to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/18\/man-jailed-for-record-50-years-for-criticising-thai-monarchy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mongkol Thirakot receives record sentence under kingdom\u2019s strict lese-majesty laws for posts on personal Facebook accountA Thai man has been given a 50-year prison sentence for criticising the monarchy \u2013 the longest jail term handed down under the king&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4109,"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":[41,1611,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-monarchy","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61274","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\/4109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61274\/revisions\/61301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}