{"id":30894,"date":"2011-12-12T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2012-03-05T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:40:33","slug":"thailand-un-joins-lese-majeste-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=30894","title":{"rendered":"Thailand : UN joins l\u00e8se majest\u00e9 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations have joined human rights groups in <a title=\"Medical Daily : UN Joins L\u00e8se Majest\u00e9 Fight as Protest Erupts in Bangkok\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medicaldaily.com\/news\/20111209\/8190\/royals-civil-unrest-freedom-of-speech-un-thailand-lese-majeste-weird-laws-protest-joe-gordan.htm\" target=\"_blank\">calling for reform<\/a> of <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Thailand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Thailand\" target=\"_blank\">Thailand&#8217;s<\/a> notoriously harsh\u00a0L\u00e8se Majest\u00e9 laws. The calls urging the Thai authorities to reform the harsh laws relating to insulting the monarchy follow the recent imprisonment of\u00a061-year old grandfather\u00a0<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\">Ampon Tangnoppakul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggested that: &#8220;Guidelines should be issued to the police and public prosecutors to stop arresting and charging individuals under these vaguely worded laws.\u201d\u00a0Around 100 supporters of Tangnoppakulalso made a rare public protest outside the Criminal Court in Bangkok against the laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations have joined human rights groups in calling for reform of Thailand&#8217;s notoriously harsh\u00a0L\u00e8se Majest\u00e9 laws. The calls urging the Thai authorities to reform the harsh laws relating to insulting the monarchy follow the recent imprisonment of\u00a061-year old grandfather\u00a0Ampon Tangnoppakul. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggested that: &#8220;Guidelines should [&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":[584,585],"tags":[346,343,7377,7399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894"}],"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=30894"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30896,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions\/30896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}