BANGKOK, Nov 10 — Thailand defended its controversial law criminalising criticism of its powerful monarchy today, as United Nations member states expressed concern over its rights record and arrests of youth protesters pushing for royal reforms since last year.
Thai officials, however, argued it protects the monarch and therefore national security, and that royal insult cases were carefully handled. Thailand’s royal family is officially above politics and the king constitutionally enshrined to be held in “revered worship”.
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