THAI police have charged five key leaders of the country’s pro-democracy protest movement under the kingdom’s tough royal defamation laws, the first such use of the controversial legislation in two years.
Section 112 of the Thai penal code is one of the world’s toughest lese majeste laws, shielding King Maha Vajiralongkorn from criticism.
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