Comments on: Thai academic charged with insulting king https://arabawy.org/10079/thai-academic-charged-with-insulting-king/ Hossam el-Hamalawy Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Isabel https://arabawy.org/10079/thai-academic-charged-with-insulting-king/#comment-3858 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:06:46 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/?p=10079#comment-3858 All of the recent lese majeste cases are terrible, but this one in particular seems to be a deliberate threat to any intellectuals challenging the current (royalist) regime — Ji Ungpakorn is an internationally respected scholar, who teaches at one of the top two universities in Thailand and is widely read both domestically and in the West. It’s a frightening time in Thailand.

In case you didn’t pick it up, ya Hoss, he’s also one of yours. The party he belongs to, Workers’ Democracy, is part of the IST.

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