Thailand: academic calls for campaign to abolish lèse majesté
16 Jan 2009Political scientist Ji Ungpakorn, a professor at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University and a prominent activist, has called for a campaign to abolish the country’s lèse majesté law.
The academic has been charged with insulting the monarchy over a book he wrote on the country’s 2006 military coup.
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Cannonball Jones
I love Thailand and the Thai people and as such it pains me that they still have this ridiculous, archaic law in place. I wish Ji Ungpakorn all the best in his campaign.