{"id":29754,"date":"2011-11-25T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=29754"},"modified":"2011-12-05T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:11:30","slug":"thailand-facebookers-who-like-anti-monarchy-groups-could-face-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=29754","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: Facebookers who &#8216;like&#8217; anti-monarchy groups could face trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Thailand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Thailand\" target=\"_blank\">Thai<\/a> Government minister <a title=\"Guardian : Thai Facebookers warned not to 'like' anti-monarchy groups\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/nov\/25\/thai-facebookers-warned-like-button\" target=\"_blank\">has warned<\/a> that Facebook users who &#8216;like&#8217; \u00a0or &#8216;share&#8217; pages which denigrate the monarchy could face prosecution. <a title=\"Bangkok Post : Perils in a simple Facebook click\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/news\/local\/267771\/perils-in-a-simple-facebook-click\" target=\"_blank\">The warning<\/a> from\u00a0information technology minister, Anudith Nakornthap, <a title=\"IFEX : Citizen sentenced to 20 years for lese majeste text messages\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/thailand\/2011\/11\/23\/ampon_sentenced\/\" target=\"_blank\">follows the sentencing<\/a> of a 61 year old man to 20 years in prison for sending text messages deemed insulting to the country&#8217;s queen. Ampon Tangnoppakul was accused of sending four text messages deemed insulting to the monarchy in May 2010. The laws against\u00a0<em>l\u00e8se-majest\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0(insulting a monarch) in Thailand are the most severe in the world &#8211; even repeating the details of an alleged offence is illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thai Government minister has warned that Facebook users who &#8216;like&#8217; \u00a0or &#8216;share&#8217; pages which denigrate the monarchy could face prosecution. The warning from\u00a0information technology minister, Anudith Nakornthap, follows the sentencing of a 61 year old man to 20 years in prison for sending text messages deemed insulting to the country&#8217;s queen. Ampon Tangnoppakul was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[4061,584,585],"tags":[136,950,343,1217,7377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29754"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29759,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29754\/revisions\/29759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}