A Thai man was jailed for 35 years on Friday for Facebook posts deemed insulting to the royal family, a watchdog said, in one of the harshest sentences handed down for a crime that insulates Thailand’s ultra-rich monarchy from criticism. A Bangkok military court convicted the 34-year-old of ten counts of lese majeste for posting … Read more
Three years after their latest coup, Thailand’s arch-royalist military is firmly dug-in. Dissent is banned, a junta-appointed legislature makes the law — and awards the army an ever-burgeoning budget — while a new constitution gifts the military power to write the script for Thailand’s next 20 years. But discontent lingers and is at its sharpest … Read more
The flag bearer of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, has described portions of Ghana’s electoral laws that require presidential nominees to fill nomination forms as draconian that must be scrapped from the statute books. Dr Lartey was among 11 other presidential aspirants disqualified by the Electoral Commission (EC) for errors … Read more
Disqualified presidential candidate of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr. Henry Lartey has described the law based on which he was disqualified as a draconian law meant to stop political aspirants from contesting in Ghana’s election. The CI 94 he posited is an affront to Ghana’s democracy and the rule of natural justice and … Read more