BANGKOK, Nov 1 — Thailand’s largest opposition party has called for a parliamentary review of the country’s use of security legislation, including a strict royal insults law, after a surge in arrests of opponents of the government. The Pheu Thai Party said the use of the laws to go after...
BANGKOK, Nov 1 — Thailand’s largest opposition party has called for a parliamentary review of the country’s use of security legislation, including a strict royal insults law, after a surge in arrests of opponents of the government.
The party is proposing parliament reexamine the ways in which the laws are used and amended, so that “prisoners of conscience” can be freed and trust in the system can be restored.
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