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Thailand: academic calls for campaign to abolish lèse majesté
Political scientist Ji Ungpakorn, a professor at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University and a prominent activist, has called for a campaign to abolish the country’s lèse majesté law. The academic has been charged with insulting the monarchy over a book he wrote on the country’s 2006 military coup. Read more here
16 Jan 09

Political scientist Ji Ungpakorn, a professor at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University and a prominent activist, has called for a campaign to abolish the country’s lèse majesté law.

The academic has been charged with insulting the monarchy over a book he wrote on the country’s 2006 military coup.

Read more here