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Thaksin arrives at Criminal Court, awaits verdict in lèse-majesté case

August 22, 2025

Thaksin faces a verdict over a May 2015 interview with South Korean media, arrives at court with daughter and red-shirt supporters

Will jousts with law bring Move Forward and Pheu Thai together again?

June 09, 2024

While many focus on the potential dissolution of the Move Forward Party and the case against the 44 Move Forward MPs who signed the proposal to amend the lese-majeste law of the criminal code, which could result in their permanent disqualification from politics, observers also link the survival of the party to Thaksin Shinawatra and the ruling Pheu Thai Party.

Analysing Move Forward’s legal challenges

SATURDAY, JUNE 08, 2024

Both cases against the opposition party revolve around the contentious issue of the lese-majeste law

Charter court accepts petition challenging Pita's stance on lese-majeste law

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2023

The Constitutional Court has accepted a petition against PM-hopeful Pita Limjaroenrat and Move Forward Party over their election campaign to amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code, or lese-majeste law.

Hun Sen details ‘incitement’ arrests

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2023

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that two former opposition activists – Hun Kosal and Yim Sinan – were arrested for incitement because the messages and photos they posted on social media “distorted information” regarding King Norodom Sihamoni and “damaged the government’s honour”.

Why impose royal defamation law in the first place?

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I acknowledge letter-writer Clara Holzer for defending our lese-majeste laws and their application, saying “they exist in many countries … and in most cases the punishment is a lot worse”.