{"id":546,"date":"2023-09-26T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asia.businessupturn.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:08:00","slug":"thailand-activist-arnon-nampa-sentenced-to-four-years-in-lese-majeste-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/southeast-asia\/thailand\/thailand-activist-arnon-nampa-sentenced-to-four-years-in-lese-majeste-case\/546\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand activist Arnon Nampa sentenced to four years in Lese-Majeste Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnon Nampa, a prominent Thai political activist and human rights lawyer, has been sentenced to four years in prison for alleged royal defamation under Thailand\u2019s lese-majeste law. The charges stem from comments he made during a protest in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This law imposes strict penalties for insulting the monarchy. Arnon Nampa was the first activist to publicly call for a national conversation on the monarchy\u2019s role in contemporary Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>His conviction follows months of debate about the lese-majeste law, with calls for its amendment by progressive groups. However, the law remains unchanged, and public discussions on the monarchy are discouraged in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnon Nampa, a prominent Thai political activist and human rights lawyer, has been sentenced to four years in prison for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}