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04-07-2016, 01:40 PM
Thai police search for source of Line stickers making fun of the royal family
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Thai authorities are looking for the source of a new set of messaging stickers making fun of the Thai royal family that appeared in the sticker store of popular app Line.
Thailand has very strict*lèse-majesté laws that can convict anyone who insults or makes fun of the Thai royal family.*
SEE ALSO: Thai princess gets $40,000 toilet built for her 3-day visit to Cambodia (http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/thai-princess-toilet/)
"We are investigating where the stickers came from and who did this," Colonel Som**** Daengdee, deputy chief of the police's Tech**logy Crime Suppression Division,*told Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-line-idUSKCN0X40GO).
Journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall managed to capture the stickers, which have since been pulled from the messaging app's store. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/07/thai-line-stickers-royal/)
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Thai authorities are looking for the source of a new set of messaging stickers making fun of the Thai royal family that appeared in the sticker store of popular app Line.
Thailand has very strict*lèse-majesté laws that can convict anyone who insults or makes fun of the Thai royal family.*
SEE ALSO: Thai princess gets $40,000 toilet built for her 3-day visit to Cambodia (http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/thai-princess-toilet/)
"We are investigating where the stickers came from and who did this," Colonel Som**** Daengdee, deputy chief of the police's Tech**logy Crime Suppression Division,*told Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-line-idUSKCN0X40GO).
Journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall managed to capture the stickers, which have since been pulled from the messaging app's store. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/07/thai-line-stickers-royal/)
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