JSEALab’s Article 112 Project to host online event!

Unpacking Article 112: Research on Law and Rights in a Time of Crisis in Thailand
May 6 – 8, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CST | 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM ICT
Zoom registration [all three days]: bit.ly/3WnjTVt

 

Join the Article 112 Project at UW-Madison for Zoom presentations and discussion on recent research about Article 112 and its impacts on law, online life, and human rights in Thailand.

6 May | LAW AND DISCOURSE

Manita Noosawat, Chiang Mai University
“Lese Majeste Law: Continuity and changes in repression by law against Thailand pro-democracy movement 2014-2021”

Tracy Beattie, Australian National University,
“#WhyDoWeNeedAKing: A Discourse Analysis of Thailand’s Anti-Monarchy Hashtag Activism”

7 May | FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Peeyakorn Leankattava, Ramkhamhaeng University
“Freedom of Expression vs Privacy Rights: A Comparative Study of Thai and Chinese Laws in the Context of Facebook’s Notice and Takedown Measures in Thailand”

Mai Van Tran, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
“Platform advocacy and social media’s accountability to freedom of expression in Thailand”

8 May | PROSECUTION AND BAIL

Khorapin Phuaphansawat, Chulalongkorn University, and Puangchon Unchanam, Naresuan University
“The Price of Freedom: Lèse-majesté Persecutions and the Politics of Bailing in Thailand”

 

About the Article 112 Project: Article 112 of the Thai Criminal Code is the measure that defines the crime and stipulates the punishment for lèse majesté: “Whoever defames, insults, or threatens the king, queen, heir-apparent or regent shall be subject to imprisonment of three to fifteen years.” Over the past twenty years, the use and abuse of Article 112 to suppress peaceful expression and silence discussion of crucial social and political questions in the Thai polity has risen at an alarming rate. Despite the urgency of this rise, and the analytic questions it necessarily raises, scholarship has remained relatively spare and restriction of freedom of expression in Thailand remains unknown outside the country. The Article 112 Project responds to this lacuna by expanding scholarship and public engagement through translation, research-led undergraduate and graduate teaching and collaboration with relevant U.S., Thai, and international scholars and nongovernmental organizations. The Article 112 Project is an initiative of the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with generous support from the Anonymous Fund. For more information, contact Tyrell Haberkorn [tyrell.haberkorn@wisc.edu] or follow us on Twitter [@a112project].