A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for royal defamation over a 2021 post on X (formerly Twitter) about King Vajiralongkorn. He was later given a one-year suspended sentence on the grounds that he had never participated in any political protests.

  • jaybone@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I read the article and still couldn’t find what the defamatory post said.

    Also it says something about democratic something, does this mean their king is elected?

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      10 days ago

      Defamation of the king in Thailand can be something benign like saying you’d prefer to have an elected President.

      As for it being a democracy, they have elections, but the military will stop a party from taking power if they don’t agree with them, like what happened last time.

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    10 days ago

    My partner was jailed for the same lèse-majesté law violation when she criticized the monarchy on Facebook. She fled the country before trial and came to the USA. She’s fought harder for democracy than any currently-living native-born American citizen. Fuck the king. (This is in Thailand.)