Thai junta urges restraint after crowds mob royal insult suspects
Thailand's military government urged people not to take the law into their own hands on Monday after three videos surfaced on social media of angry mobs accusing people of insulting the monarchy following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Criticism of the monarch, the regent and the heir, known by the French term lese majeste, is a crime that carries a jail sentence of up to 15 years in Thailand. "They wanted to make a stand that no one could insult the king they love," Police Major General
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