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1 day ago · The conservative establishment close to the monarchy and the army is notorious for reaching for Thailand’s harsh lèse-majesté law, with sentences of up to 15 years in prison, ...
1 day ago · By Patpicha Tanakasempipat. June 19, 2024 at 1:23 AM PDT. Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been charged under a law known as lese majeste that makes it a crime to defame, insult ...
3 days ago · The House of Representatives, the Thai parliament’s lower house, passed the same-sex marriage bill on 27 March 2024 with an overwhelming majority voting in favour. Today the Senate, the upper house of Thailand’s parliament, passed the law during an ad-hoc parliamentary session.
3 days ago · Mr. Thaksin is the most high-profile figure to be charged with violating the royal defamation law, which is one of the world’s harshest. He posted bail of about $14,000, according to Thailand ...
2 days ago · June 18, 2024 / 8:42 AM EDT / CBS News. Thailand's senate passed a bill Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriage, setting it on course to become the third place in Asia with marriage equality ...
The RTA intervened on 20 May 2014, when its commander, General Prayut, exercised the power under the act promulgated by King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) entitled Martial Law, BE 2457 (1914), to impose martial law nationwide from 03:00. He said through a television pool that the imposition of martial law was due to continuous violence from both sides ...
May 20, 2014 · What does martial law look like in Thailand? Within hours of declaring martial law, Gen. Prayuth announced he would be leading a new security task force, the Peace Keeping Command Center (PKCC).
