BANGKOK: The US Ambassador to Thailand is under investigation for royal defamation over comments he made criticising lengthy jail sentences from the kingdom’s lese majeste law, a foreign media group and police said Wednesday.
Under Thai law anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent can face up to 15 years in jail on each count.
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