Lese majeste complaint against Thaksin
- Bangkok Post: November 11, 2009
- http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/159655/complaints-filed-against-thaksin-others-for-lese-majeste
The Siam Samakkhi Group on Tuesday filed two complaints alleging lese majeste with Dusit police against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and two other people.
The complaints were lodged on behalf of the group by senators Somchai Sawaengkarn and Warin Thiamjarat, Gen Somchet Boonthanom, former chief of the secretariat of the Council for National Security, and Lt-Gen Nanthadet Meksawat, former deputy chief of the national intelligence coordination centre.
The first complaint was against Thaksin and Richard Loyd Parry, editor of the Asia edition of The Times, which published the Thaksin interview in which he referred to the monarchy.
The second was against Jai Ungphakorn, a former lecturer of Chulalongkorn University who fled the country after being charged with lese majeste, and the website redsiam.net for disseminating articles alleged to contain lese majeste.
