BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Thai police charged a former opposition lawmaker with lese majeste on Monday (June 20) over calls to reform the country’s powerful monarchy as authorities step up crackdowns on royal critics.
Piyabutr Saengkanokkul (pic) is the second former executive of the now-disbanded Future Forward Party, which came third in the 2019 general election, to be charged under the royal defamation law.
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