lèse majesté
Example Sentences
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Visitors should be aware that lèse majesté cases can be brought by any Thai citizen — no matter what country they reside in, and at any time, against any other individual, Thai or foreign.
From Time • Oct. 17, 2016
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
Cuffed by his ankles and wrists, Pongsak was escorted into a small courtroom and lined up on a bench with four other suspects at earlier stages of separate lèse majesté cases.
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
To speak ill of him, or to do anything derogatory to his authority, was lèse majesté.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
