Some 224 international scholars back Campaign 112
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A group of 224 international scholars on Wednesday released an open letter supporting the proposed amendment to the lese majeste law and rallying behind the Nitirat acaemic group for spearheading the reform on Article 112 of the Criminal Code.
The letter was addressed and sent to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, calling for her intervention to ensure a speedy legislative change.
Co-signatories of the letter include Ben Kiernan from Yale University, Paul Handley of the banned book “The King Never Smiles”, Noam Chomsky of the Massachusettes Institute of Technology and Kevin Hewison of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
The scholars are from 16 countries, including those from the Australian National University and the School of Oriental and African Studies.
The Nation
