Ambassador Davies enjoys diplomatic immunity, so even if he is found guilty of lèse majesté, he will not be tried and punished under Thai law. However, Thai authorities have hinted that the ...

Arnon Nampa’s youngest child runs toward the sound of shackles. The 3-year-old’s only memories of his father, a prominent human right lawyer and activist, are from seeing him in a courtroom – not from ...

Across Southeast Asia, increasingly authoritarian governments are systematically corroding freedom of expression as their tolerance for dissent and criticism deteriorates. States continue to harass, ...

A Thai court on Wednesday ordered the kingdom’s most popular political party to end its campaign to amend the country’s notoriously strict royal defamation law, dashing its supporters hopes for reform ...

An exiled Thai professor talks about his campaign to abolish the controversial law, which criminalizes criticisms of the country’s monarchy. In Thailand, the past two years have seen more than 130 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Thailand's first female PM Yingluck Shinawatra receives the royal command ...