{"id":70856,"date":"2025-04-09T00:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/american-academic-paul-chambers-thailand-charged-insulting-monarchy"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:49:01","slug":"american-academic-held-in-thailand-charged-with-insulting-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70856","title":{"rendered":"American academic held in Thailand charged with insulting monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Chambers detained under strict lese-majesty law, which can lead to 15 years in jail on a single charge<\/p>\n<p>A prominent American academic has been detained in Thailand after being charged with insulting the monarchy, a rare case in which a foreign national has fallen foul of the country\u2019s strict lese-majesty law.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Chambers, who specialises in civil-military relations and democratisation in south-east Asia, was denied bail on Tuesday and is being held at Phitsanulok provincial prison in northern Thailand, his lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/american-academic-paul-chambers-thailand-charged-insulting-monarchy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Chambers detained under strict lese-majesty law, which can lead to 15 years in jail on a single chargeA prominent American academic has been detained in Thailand after being charged with insulting the monarchy, a rare case in which a foreign natio&#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":[41,93,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-us-news","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\/70856","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=70856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70857,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70856\/revisions\/70857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}