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Thailand Revokes Visa Of US Academic Charged With Royal Insult

A sign is displayed outside the Criminal Court during a protest against article 112, Thailand's lese majeste royal defamation law (Credit: AFP)

Thailand's immigration authorities revoked the visa Wednesday of a prominent American scholar detained a day earlier on royal defamation charges, his lawyer said.

Paul Chambers, who has spent over a decade teaching Southeast Asia politics at a Thai university, had his bail request rejected Tuesday by a court in Phitsanulok province after reporting to police to answer a charge of lese-majeste.

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