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Thai activists urge UN to help repeal royal defamation laws

by Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul
| December 10, 2020 1:33 AM

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Pro-democracy demonstrators in Bangkok marked United Nations Human Rights Day on Thursday with rallies calling for the abolition of Thailand’s strict royal defamation law, which was recently revived to prosecute more than 20 of the protest movement’s leaders.

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