{"id":52711,"date":"2024-05-27T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52711"},"modified":"2024-05-27T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:29:13","slug":"thai-mp-sentenced-to-two-years-in-jail-for-insulting-monarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52711","title":{"rendered":"Thai MP sentenced to two years in jail for insulting monarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thai court sentenced a lawmaker from the progressive Move Forward Party to two years in jail on Monday for insulting the monarchy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chonthicha Jaengraew was found guilty under Thailand&#8217;s strict lese-majeste laws over a speech she made during an anti-government protest in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>MFP won the most seats in last year&#8217;s general election but was blocked from forming a government by conservative forces opposed to its pledge to reform the royal defamation laws, which shield King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close family from criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Thanyaburi, north of Bangkok, reduced the sentence from three years because Chonthicha cooperated, her lawyer told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The court freed the MP on 150,000 baht ($4,000) bail pending an appeal, the lawyer added.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an upsurge in charges under lese-majeste laws &#8212; known in Thailand as &#8220;112&#8221; after the relevant section of the criminal code &#8212; since youth-led pro-democracy street protests in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thai court sentenced a lawmaker from the progressive Move Forward Party to two years in jail on Monday for insulting the monarchy. Chonthicha Jaengraew was found guilty under Thailand&#8217;s strict lese-majeste laws over a speech she made during an anti-government protest in 2021. MFP won the most seats in last year&#8217;s general election but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1604],"class_list":["post-52711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-thai-mp-sentenced-to-two-years-in-jail-for-insulting-monarchy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}