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Reuters Updated at 9:15 p.m. ET on 2020-12-17 A 16-year-old boy and a fellow activist were charged Thursday in Bangkok for allegedly violating Thailand’s strict royal defamation law by performing in a satirical street show that poked fun at the monarchy during a pro-democracy protest in October, their attorneys said. Noppasilp – a schoolboy whose last name was withheld by his attorney for privacy reasons – and Jatuporn Sae Ung reported to the Yannawa police station in Bangkok after being summoned there, said Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), a legal aid group that has been assisting anti-government protesters. “This is the first royal defamation case against a youth since last year,” Kumklao Songsomboon, a lawyer for TLHR, told the media. “In just a month’s time, the royal defamation law was not only used against the protester leaders, but a youth, who just exercised his freedom of expression.” ....
Thai protester, 16, faces accusations of insulting king 1 minute read Bangkok, Dec 17 (efe-epa).- Thai police on Thursday questioned a 16-year-old student accused of lese-majesty for allegedly taking part in an anti-government protest while wearing a crop top similar to that worn by King Vajiralongkorn in some photographs taken of the monarch while in Germany, where he spends much of his time. The photographs in question, while published in European media, have been censored in Thailand, a country where debating the topic of the royal family remains deeply taboo. Royal reforms are one of the central aims of the current student-led protests in the Southeast Asian nation. ....