lèse majesté
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Cases of lèse majesté have flourished ostensibly against Bhumibol’s wishes.
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
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
One may hear a nightingale and not mark him; which is a lèse majesté.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
