Thailand’s Constitutional Court has agreed to hear a suit demanding the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward Party for its controversial campaign to reform a law that shields the powerful monarchy from criticism, under which at least 260 people have been prosecuted in the past few years.
This follows an earlier ruling by the same court that judged Move Forward’s plan to amend the law as unconstitutional and tantamount to an attempt to overthrow the system of government with the king as head of state.
Move Forward which won last year’s election but was blocked from forming a government by lawmakers allied with the royalist military has said it would prepare its defence.
