Meanings of lèse-majesté in English

Any Thai can bring a legal case against a person under the lèse-majesté law.

Thailand's lèse-majesté laws are among the strictest in the world.

Any Thai can bring a lèse-majesté case against someone.

To commit lèse-majesté, to speak slightingly of royalty in Germany, is a very serious offence.

AMERICA:IT WAS a profound show of disrespect for the office of president, a crime of lèse-majesté.

No protesters have been charged under lèse-majesté.

He did not mention the lèse-majesté laws specifically but online criticism of the king has become increasingly direct.

The very thought is lèse-majesté in the aesthetic code of today, yet I have to admit I had it.

Thailand's lèse-majesté laws Strict lèse-majesté laws make it a crime to criticise, defame or insult members of the royal family.

It is lèse-majesté, but none the less true, to say that they think as much of their General as of their Kaiser.

Although the king has apparently requested no prosecutions be made under the lèse-majesté law for now, other charges have been used against protesters.

"Ah, but she's saved you from the crime of lèse-majesté, hasn't she?" said the King, distracted from his sudden suspicion and amused by Primi's discomfiture.