{"id":9101,"date":"2025-04-08T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/780267568562864128-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:17:34","slug":"780267568562864128-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/780267568562864128-2\/","title":{"rendered":"780267568562864128"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/08\/asia\/thailand-lese-majeste-paul-chambers-intl-hnk\/index.html\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/08\/asia\/thailand-lese-majeste-paul-chambers-intl-hnk\/index.html\",\"title\":\"American academic faces years in jail after being charged with insulting Thai monarchy | CNN\",\"description\":\"A prominent American academic working in Thailand has been charged with insulting the monarchy, in a rare case of a foreign national being c\",\"site_name\":\"CNN\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"6845507876118a8ffe499617a2201a6a:a4f35f6642de1258-fd\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":450}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/08\/asia\/thailand-lese-majeste-paul-chambers-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">American academic faces years in jail after being charged with insulting Thai monarchy | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe charges against Chambers represent a \u2018tightening chokehold on free speech and academic freedom in Thailand,\u2019 said Sunai Phasuk, senior Thailand researcher for Human Rights Watch. \u2018Paul is considered a major target by ultra-royalist groups, which have launched multiple attacks against him for years \u2014 ranging from online disinformation and hate campaigns to pressing authorities to revoke his visa and get him expulsed from the university,\u2019 Sunai told CNN.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American academic faces years in jail after being charged with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[1553,6040,1650,11091,11679,4433,630,8702,10089,11677,5884,3257,11678,303,8482],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-bangkok","tag-democracy","tag-freedom","tag-freedom-of-expression","tag-freedom-of-press","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-law","tag-l-se-majest","tag-monarchy","tag-paul-chambers","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-royal","tag-thailand","tag-8482"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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