Overview

• The attorney-general’s office formally closed the lese-majesté case on May 29 after overruling a police appeal, ending a five-week legal process against the political science lecturer.
• Chambers’s passport was returned and he departed Thailand the same day, though his work visa remains revoked.
• His lawyers have filed appeals against both the visa cancellation and his dismissal from Naresuan University.
• The charges originated from a complaint by a royalist army unit over a seminar blurb posted by a Singapore-based research institute.
• The U.S. State Department criticized the arrest, warning that Thailand’s strict royal defamation laws pose risks to free speech and academic freedom.