lèse majesté
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The U.N. notes at least 40 individuals have either been convicted or remain in pre-trial detention for lèse majesté since last year’s coup.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2016
Known as lèse majesté, or Article 112, they are considered the world’s harshest with penalties of up to 15 years in jail.
From Time ● Oct. 13, 2016
Reuters reviewed online postings for which two Thais pleaded guilty and were convicted of lèse majesté: six by Pongsak and five by another man who got 50 years for his comments.
From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2015
As with the popular children's work, The Queen's Knickers, The Uncommon Reader is a piece of audacious lèse majesté which, in an earlier age, would have put its author's head on a spike.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2012
I nearly said "Lor!" like Mr. Tweddle in The Tinted Venus, but in Germany it's a serious matter, a sort of lèse majesté, to laugh at the rightful rule of man.
From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
