{"id":46455,"date":"2017-10-09T06:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T06:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46455"},"modified":"2017-10-09T06:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T06:42:47","slug":"thai-man-faces-prison-for-doubting-story-about-ancient-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/thai-man-faces-prison-for-doubting-story-about-ancient-king.html","title":{"rendered":"Thai man faces prison for doubting story about ancient king"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Thai man faces prison for doubting story about ancient king<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A prominent 85-year-old Thai social critic is facing up to 15 years in prison for offending the monarchy after questioning whether a duel on elephant-back, fought more than 400 years ago by a Thai king against a Burmese adversary, ever took place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Sulak Sivaraksa was sent to a military court in Bangkok on Monday after reporting to a police station to hear whether the case against him, first lodged in 2014 by a military officer, would go ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The complaint was filed under Thailand&#8217;s draconian lese majeste law, meant to protect top members of the royal family from defamation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The law specifically excludes dead kings, but in practice the rules are often more widely interpreted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/10\/09\/thai-man-faces-prison-for-doubting-story-about-ancient-king.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/thai-man-faces-prison-for-doubting-story-about-ancient-king.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai man faces prison for doubting story about ancient king A prominent 85-year-old Thai social critic is facing up to 15 years in prison for offending the monarchy after questioning whether a duel on elephant-back, fought more than 400 years ago by a Thai king against a Burmese adversary, ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[73026],"class_list":["post-46455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-thai-man-faces-prison-for-doubting-story-about-ancient-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}