American Professor Faces 15 Years for Academic Speech Critical of Thailand's King

Dr. Paul Chambers is not a revolutionary. He is a scholar, a 58-year-old American academic who has spent more than three decades in Thailand, building a career rooted in analysis, not agitation. Since 1993, Chambers has lectured in political science at Naresuan University, a mid-sized institution in the ancient capital of Phitsanulok, where he also serv…