{"id":33652,"date":"2012-03-05T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33652"},"modified":"2012-03-05T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:02:37","slug":"thailand-student-faces-prison-for-speaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33652","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: Student faces prison for speaking out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20 year old student <a title=\"Guardian: Student faces prison for speaking out in royalist Thailand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/mar\/04\/thailand-student-kanthoop-faces-prison?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">faces 15 years<\/a> in prison for &#8220;having opinions&#8221; after she posted a message on Facebook in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Thailand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Thailand\" target=\"_blank\">Thailand<\/a>. Police began investigating\u00a0Kanthoop\u00a0under Thailand&#8217;s strict <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Lese-majeste laws\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/lese-majeste\/\" target=\"_blank\">l\u00e8se majest\u00e9\u00a0laws<\/a> in\u00a02010 after she posted criticisms of the Thai monarchy on her Facebook wall, and allegedly distorted versions of the post were forwarded to authorities by email. If charged, Kanthoop, a student at\u00a0Bangkok&#8217;s Thammasat University, could be the youngest offender of lese-majeste. The student, who has been spat at, publicly denigrated and threatened by police\u00a0said: &#8220;I am guilty only of freedom of thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 20 year old student faces 15 years in prison for &#8220;having opinions&#8221; after she posted a message on Facebook in Thailand. Police began investigating\u00a0Kanthoop\u00a0under Thailand&#8217;s strict l\u00e8se majest\u00e9\u00a0laws in\u00a02010 after she posted criticisms of the Thai monarchy on her Facebook wall, and allegedly distorted versions of the post were forwarded to authorities by email. [&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":[346,4379,343,4076,7377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33652"}],"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=33652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33664,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33652\/revisions\/33664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}