World Report 2009: Thailand
22 January 2009
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ARTICLE 19 calls on the Thai government to repeal criminal defamation provisions in favour of civil law and other measures.
Human Rights Watch said authorities should quash the sentence and cease prosecuting other cases under the lese majeste law.
Poet, human rights lawyer and activist Arnon Nampha was convicted of royal defamation for calling for monarchy reform in a public rally in October 2020.