Lese-majeste charges filed against Thanathorn

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Lese-majeste charges filed against Thanathorn

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taking a play out of HE's play book concerning eliminating ur opponents.

Former leader of the now-disbanded Future Forward Party Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has been charged with lese-majeste and computer crimes, according to an official memo sent to Reuters and local media on Wednesday by Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society.

The complaint was filed against the banned opposition politician at the Suppression Division of Technological Crimes on Wednesday afternoon.
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics ... govt-says/

For the 11 counts of lese majeste, Thanathorn faces a maximum penalty of 165 years in prison
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This isn't the biggest story I've read tonight, if rumours are true I think it potentially might explain the draconian sentence just handed down, and the need to cover up the most unbelievable in house issue to date. Truly bizarre.
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Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:12 pm This isn't the biggest story I've read tonight, if rumours are true I think it potentially might explain the draconian sentence just handed down, and the need to cover up the most unbelievable in house issue to date. Truly bizarre.

Kicking the shit out of his own sister? The mad king strikes again. How are Germany going to handle this?
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I'm pretty sure we're all finding it a bit of a struggle being unable to travel to places where we would like to go and quite possibly rather be, but cannot due to unforseen restrictions and potential barriers to entry. Being confined to quarters and unable to pursue as active a social life as we've been used to does have its stresses. Some appear to be handling it better than others.
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phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 5:30 pm taking a play out of HE's play book concerning eliminating ur opponents.
HE more likely copied the Thai Lese-majeste laws which have been in place for decades.
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I wonder if ThaiVisa are doing some forum upgrade work tonight, I tried to catch up on Pattaya news and apparently " This community is not available ". What unfortunate timing.
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Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:57 pm I wonder if ThaiVisa are doing some forum upgrade work tonight, I tried to catch up on Pattaya news and apparently " This community is not available ". What unfortunate timing.
Yeah I noticed that, too. They're back this morning, outages have been piling up there recently.
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Alex wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:59 am
Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:57 pm I wonder if ThaiVisa are doing some forum upgrade work tonight, I tried to catch up on Pattaya news and apparently " This community is not available ". What unfortunate timing.
Yeah I noticed that, too. They're back this morning, outages have been piling up there recently.
I do wonder if they are forced outages, the times it happens seem to coincide with a major sensitive news event. I don't look afterwards to see if there is an explanation for the downtime and I don't see any forewarning of planned maintenance like CEO does. Maybe it's a voluntary thing they decide on if they are worried the moderators might miss a few controversial posts at times of heightened sensitivity as is happening now.
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Not to worry gentlemen, I have it on the various highest authority from a most reliable source that political conflicts in Thailand have no effect whatsoever upon the expatriate community.

Carry on... :hattip:
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I read this recently

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... new-record

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