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UN Body Blasts Thailand on Lèse-Majesté

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Aug 12, 2015
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has come out swinging against Thailand’s tough lèse-majesté laws, saying in a Geneva-based release that it “is appalled by the shockingly disproportionate prison terms handed down over the past few months in lèse-majesté cases in Thailand.”

The commission’s anger was spurred by the latest of several c…

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