A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for royal defamation over a 2021 post on X (formerly Twitter) about King Vajiralongkorn. He was later given a one-year suspended sentence on the grounds that he had never participated in any political protests.
I read the article and still couldn’t find what the defamatory post said.
Also it says something about democratic something, does this mean their king is elected?
Defamation of the king in Thailand can be something benign like saying you’d prefer to have an elected President.
As for it being a democracy, they have elections, but the military will stop a party from taking power if they don’t agree with them, like what happened last time.
holy shit, and people want to pass these places as democratic.
My partner was jailed for the same lèse-majesté law violation when she criticized the monarchy on Facebook. She fled the country before trial and came to the USA. She’s fought harder for democracy than any currently-living native-born American citizen. Fuck the king. (This is in Thailand.)
