Thailand: Constitutional Court Dissolves Opposition Party

Disbanding Move Forward Party, Banning Leaders a Blow to Democracy

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/07/thailand-constitutional-court-dissolves-opposition-party

The nine-judge Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that the Move Forward Party committed treason by advocating reform of Penal Code section 112 on lèse-majesté (insulting the monarchy) and imposed 10-year political bans on all of its executive members, who were in office from April 2021 to January 2024. The case had been brought by the national Election Commission.

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