{"id":75269,"date":"2025-11-20T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/australian-murray-hunter-journalist-academic-trial-over-alleged-criminal-defamation-of-malaysian-government"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:55:49","slug":"australian-living-in-thailand-faces-trial-over-alleged-criminal-defamation-of-malaysian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75269","title":{"rendered":"Australian living in Thailand faces trial over alleged criminal defamation of Malaysian government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murray Hunter charged with offence which carries a potential penalty of two years in jail, or a 200,000 baht (AUD$9,500) fine<\/p>\n<p>An Australian academic and journalist faces up to two years in prison after being charged \u2013 in Thailand \u2013 with defaming the Malaysian government.<\/p>\n<p>Murray Hunter, a longtime resident of southern Thailand, will stand trial in Bangkok next month, charged with criminal defamation over articles critical of the Malaysian government\u2019s internet regulator.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/australian-murray-hunter-journalist-academic-trial-over-alleged-criminal-defamation-of-malaysian-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murray Hunter charged with offence which carries a potential penalty of two years in jail, or a 200,000 baht (AUD$9,500) fineAn Australian academic and journalist faces up to two years in prison after being charged \u2013 in Thailand \u2013 with defaming the Mal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[43,457,70,238,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-freedom-of-speech","category-malaysia","category-media","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75269","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75270,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75269\/revisions\/75270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}