The director general of the Region 6 Public Prosecutors’ Office decided today to drop lèse majesté and computer crime charges against American academic Paul Chambers.

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Sakkasem Neesaiyok, spokesman for the Office of the Attorney-General, said in a statement that the decision to drop all charges against Chambers, an academic at the University of Naresuan in Phitsanuloke province, is in line with the resolution of a working committee, tasked with setting guidelines for the enforcement of the lèse majesté law (§112 of the Criminal Code).

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By Thai PBS World