UN rights experts on Thursday urged Thailand to repeal its royal defamation laws, branding them vague and saying their widespread use ...

"The fire of struggle has not yet been extinguished. The seeds of freedom have been sown in people’s hearts already. We now ...

GENEVA (30 January 2025) – Thailand’s continuous use of lèse-majesté laws to detain and imprison activists and human rights defenders is gravely concerning, a group of UN experts* said today, urging ...

BANGKOK — Thai prosecutors on Tuesday formally indicted influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra under the kingdom’s strict royal insult laws over comments he made nearly a decade ago.

But in the 2019 election which returned Thailand to civilian rule, a new, youthful reformist party called Future Forward, ...

Improvements needed for Thailand's human rights practices, says Sunai Phasuk, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.

BANGKOK--A court in Thailand convicted and sentenced Wednesday a recently elected lawmaker to six years in prison for defaming the monarchy under a controversial law that guards the royal ...

Once known as Siam, the Kingdom of Thailand remains a constitutional monarchy, sometimes disrupted by military coups. It is the only southeast Asian country to have avoided colonial rule. With an ...