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    Lèse-majesté (/ˌlɛzˌmæʒɛsˈteɪ/) or lese-majesty (/ˌliːz ˈmædʒɪsti/) is an offence or defamation against the dignity of a ruling head of state (traditionally...
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    Thai lèse-majesté law has been on the statute books since 1908. Thailand is the only constitutional monarchy to have strengthened its lèse-majesté law...
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  • imperial family," including lèse-majesté, were abolished in the 1947 revision of the penal code. Therefore, there is no lèse-majesté in the current law in Japan...
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  • lèse majesté was a man who attacked Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with a tomato during her state visit in 1981. As of 2015, lèse majesté is...
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    Retrieved 28 March 2023. "Cambodia Passes Lèse-Majesté Law | Voice of America – English". 16 February 2018. "Lèse majesté law now in effect". The Phnom Penh...
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    Crown, Article 56, the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The concept of lèse-majesté (lesa-majestad) exists in Spanish jurisprudence, which is the crime or...
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    Other critics of the lèse majesté law were detained as well. The NCPO later summoned a number of exiled activists accused of lèse majesté, including former...
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    lèse majesté law, even though the people's attitude towards the institution varies from one reign to another. The kings are protected by lèse-majesté...
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    sharp rise in lèse-majesté prosecutions. Lèse-majesté cases rose from five or six a year pre-2005 to 478 in 2010. Although lèse-majesté officially only...
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    run-up for a verdict by the Constitutional Court on whether the party's lèse-majesté policies were constitutional, the MFP was confident that the court would...
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  • This is the list of prosecuted lèse majesté cases in Thailand. Lèse-majesté in Thailand "A Critic May Now Look at a King", Macan-Markar, Marwaan, The Asian...
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    Vajiralongkorn had instructed his government not to use the lèse majesté law. At the time, the lèse majesté law had not been used since 2018, with the government...
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    welcomed criticism. The lèse-majesté law is part of Thailand's Criminal Code and has been described as "world's harshest lèse majesté law" and "possibly the...
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    Somsak Jeamteerasakul (category People accused of lèse majesté in Thailand)
    and its lèse majesté law. He has lived in self-imposed exile in France since the 2014 Thai coup d'état, following violent attacks and lèse majesté charges...
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    party was also under small threats of dissolution due to its proposed lèse-majesté (royal insult law) reforms. Party leader Pita was also under consideration...
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  • animals Poaching Wildlife smuggling Bestiality Crimes against the state Lèse-majesté Treason Espionage Secession Sedition Subversion Defenses to liability...
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    corresponding law regarding the crime of lèse-nation, go back to the law relating to the crime of lèse-majesté. Both were adapted by the revolutionaries...
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  • Chonthicha Jaengraew (category People accused of lèse majesté in Thailand)
    May 2024, a court of first instance in Pathum Thani convicted her of lèse majesté and sentenced her to two-year imprisonment for the comments she made...
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    during the Cold War) as disloyalty to the state Espionage or spying Lèse-majesté, insulting a head of state and a crime in some countries Misprision of...
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    prime minister, and would not back down on his promise to reform the lèse-majesté law. Protests continued, with many demanding that the senators resign...
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    Jatupat Boonpattararaksa (category People accused of lèse majesté in Thailand since 2020)
    activist from Thailand, who was arrested on 3 December 2016 on charges of Lèse-majesté in Thailand, the first such case under King Vajiralongkorn, following...
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    animals Poaching Wildlife smuggling Bestiality Crimes against the state Lèse-majesté Treason Espionage Secession Sedition Subversion Defenses to liability...
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    had assembled or drowned in the Loire. The executions for the crime of lèse majesté were an opportunity for dramatisations, as later illustrated famously...
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  • chemo. In January 2021, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit was charged with lèse-majesté, a strict defamation law, after criticizing Prayut Chan-o-cha government...
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  • Pita, violated the constitution through its aim to amend Thailand's lèse-majesté. The court has also ordered the party to end their campaign to amend...
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  • Jersey bus) KFM 112M aircraft engine Thai Criminal Code section 112, see Lèse majesté in Thailand 112 Iphigenia, a main-belt asteroid 1/12 (disambiguation)...
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  • Thai lèse-majesté law has been on the statute books since 1908. Thailand is the only constitutional monarchy to have strengthened its lèse-majesté law...
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  • Year by year Internet censorship has grown, with its focus shifting to lèse majesté, national security, and political issues. By 2010, estimates put the...
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    soil. Vajiralongkorn is protected by one of the most strictly enforced lèse majesté laws in the world. For many years, criticism of the king, queen, crown...
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    attempted to derail the proceedings a verdict was at last reached, guilt of lèse majesté. Two judges however refused to sign the conclusion, L'Hôpital, and du...
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