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Thailand Files Royal Defamation Charge Against Key Critic Bloomberg 1/20/2021 Randy Thanthong-Knight © Bloomberg Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward party, gestures as he speaks during an interview in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Thanathorn, a staunch critic of the junta, sees protesters returning to the streets if the military establishment escalates its campaign against the country’s opposition. (Bloomberg) -- The Thai governmen...

Advertisement As I mentioned briefly in an article yesterday, a Thai court yesterday sentenced a woman to a record 43-and-a-half years for criticizing the monarchy – the most severe sentence ever handed down under Thailand’s controversial lese-majeste law. The Bangkok Criminal Court found Anchan Preelert, a former civil servant, guilty of violating the law on 29 instances, for posting audio clips to Facebook and YouTube with comments deemed critical of the palace. This initially added up to...

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Below is a brief history of Thai protest and coups. Pro-democracy demonstrators stand in front of a portrait of Thailands King Maha Vajiralongkorn outside the Government House during an anti-government mass protest, on the 47th anniversary of the 1973 student uprising, in Bangkok, Thailand October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva 1932 - The Siamese Revolution ends centuries of absolute royal rule, officially establishing a constitutional monarchy and democracy in Siam, later ca...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Below is a brief history of Thai protest and coups. FILE PHOTO: Water with tear gas shot from a water cannon flies over demonstrators during an anti-government protest, in Bangkok, Thailand October 16, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo 1932 - The Siamese Revolution ends centuries of absolute royal rule, officially establishing a constitutional monarchy and democracy in Siam, later called Thailand. 1933 - The Boworadet Rebellion, aimed at restoring an absolute monarchy, i...

Songphon "Yajai" Sonthirak had been a boxer for most of his young life and knew how to face down a stronger opponent: Keep your guard up, stand tall, stay focused. So he was shocked to discover, on the day of his arrest, how little his training mattered and how fear seized...

A fraught year in politics 1 published : 30 Dec 2020 at 11:02 1 It is often said that Thailand resolves around political events. Here are the five most dynamic and attention-grabbing stories — the youth-led, anti-government protests, the Future Forward Party’s spectacular fall, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha surviving the Constitutional Court’s rulings that threatened to deliver the death warrant on his premiership, the Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) elec...

Future Forward Partys spectacular rise and fall 45 published : 30 Dec 2020 at 07:19 45 Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, centre, leader of the now-defunct Future Forward Party, at a meeting to map out plans to censure the government in February. Chanat Katanyu Despite being a newcomer to Thai politics, the FFP stunned both the public and politicians with its remarkable performance in the March 24, 2019 election when it won more than 80 House ...

Progressive Movement sorry for poll failure 18 published : 22 Dec 2020 at 04:33 Thanathorn: People change Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Progressive Movement, on Monday apologised to voters after group candidates failed to win in the Provincial Administrative Organisations chairman elections on Sunday. Mr Thanathorn took to Facebook Live to say the group was defeated in the elections because it did not work hard enough to garn...

Advertisement On Sunday, Thai voters went to the polls for provincial elections, the country’s first electoral exercise since flawed national elections in 2019 that marked the end of five years of direct military rule. The important local elections came amid a raft of large youth-led protests against the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, which have featured taboo-breaking demands for the reform of the Thai monarchy. The elections, which chose provincial administrative organizati...