Teerayut: Lodge crucial petitions
Just because something is dormant, it doesn’t mean it’s dead. That was how sceptics described efforts in parliament to push through an bill granting amnesty to political offenders in the name of social healing after years of bitter divisions in the country.
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Teerayut: Lodge crucial petitions
Just because something is dormant, it doesn’t mean it’s dead. That was how sceptics described efforts in parliament to push through an bill granting amnesty to political offenders in the name of social healing after years of bitter divisions in the country.
These efforts have reached the stage where an ad hoc House committee has finalised a study on the design of the amnesty bill, which has run into problems over whether offenders of Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or the lese majeste law, should be granted an amnesty too.
Critics have argued that most lese majeste offenders,…