{"id":25336,"date":"2011-08-08T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2011-08-11T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T09:01:43","slug":"thailand-graduate-detained-for-lese-majeste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25336","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: Blogger detained on lese majeste charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Norawase Yospiyasathien\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/norawase-yospiyasathien\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norawase Yospiyasathien<\/a>, a university graduate and blogger, was <a title=\"Global Voices Online - Thailand: University Student Detained for Lese Majeste \" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/08\/07\/thailand-university-student-detained-for-lese-majeste\/\" target=\"_blank\">detained<\/a> on Friday while police investigate allegations of <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Lese Majeste\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/lese-majeste\/\" target=\"_blank\">lese majeste<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; offending the <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Thailand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/thailand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thai <\/a>monarchy. According to online newspaper <a title=\"Paratchai\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prachatai3.info\/english\/node\/2697?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+prachataienglish+%28Prachatai+in+English%29\" target=\"_blank\">Prachatai<\/a>\u00a0police are scrutinising his blog posts. The person who filed the charge was said to be a vice rector for students affairs at Kasetsart University, who reportedly said he was pressed to do so by the University Council in a bid to protect the school&#8217;s reputation. The student could be charged under both lese majeste law, which carries a maximum 15-year jail term, and the Computer Crimes Act, which has a punishment of up to five years in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norawase Yospiyasathien, a university graduate and blogger, was detained on Friday while police investigate allegations of lese majeste\u00a0&#8212; offending the Thai monarchy. According to online newspaper Prachatai\u00a0police are scrutinising his blog posts. The person who filed the charge was said to be a vice rector for students affairs at Kasetsart University, who reportedly said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[103,346,343,3626,2626,7377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25369,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}