{"id":61683,"date":"2024-02-06T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/thailand-pita-limjaroenrat-suspended-sentence-former-pm-candidate-unlawful-rally"},"modified":"2024-02-06T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:40:50","slug":"thailands-former-pm-candidate-pita-limjaroenrat-handed-suspended-sentence-in-latest-legal-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61683","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s former PM candidate Pita Limjaroenrat handed suspended sentence in latest legal blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pita\u2019s sentence for holding an unlawful rally comes a week after a Thai court ruled that his Move Forward party had undermined the monarchy<\/p>\n<p>A Thai court has handed suspended sentences to former prime ministerial hopeful Pita Limjaroenrat and seven other political figures for holding an unlawful rally in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The case adds to the legal trouble facing the opposition Move Forward Party after the country\u2019s constitutional court last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/thai-court-rules-move-forward-party-must-end-bid-reform-lese-majesty-law\">ruled that the party has undermined the monarchy<\/a> and national security amid its campaign to amend a law protecting the monarchy from criticism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/06\/thailand-pita-limjaroenrat-suspended-sentence-former-pm-candidate-unlawful-rally\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pita\u2019s sentence for holding an unlawful rally comes a week after a Thai court ruled that his Move Forward party had undermined the monarchyA Thai court has handed suspended sentences to former prime ministerial hopeful Pita Limjaroenrat and seven other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-61683","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\/61683","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61684,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61683\/revisions\/61684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}