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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.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago

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.)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 15 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

holy shit, and people want to pass these places as democratic.

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