{"id":1743,"date":"2021-11-02T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/equalitynow.org\/resource\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:10:12","slug":"thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/fr\/resource\/uncategorised\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand &#8211; Criminal Code, B.E 2499 (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"meta-split-banner-block\" style=\"background-color:#00754C\">\n\n    \n        <div class=\"columns is-gapless is-multiline is-mobile\">\n            <div class=\"column is-12-mobile is-8-tablet is-6-desktop\">\n                <div class=\"image-container-overlay is-hidden-desktop\">\n\n                    \n                        <div class=\"image-overlay\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/placeholder.jpg');\"><\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n                <div class=\"outer\">\n                    <div class=\"inner left\">\n                        <div class=\"split-post-content\">\n\n                            <div class=\"columns is-multiline is-mobile\">\n                                <div class=\"column is-12\">\n                                    <p class=\"date\">2nd novembre 2021<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"column is-12\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"title\">Thailand &#8211; Criminal Code, B.E 2499 (1956)<\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                            \n                            \n                                <div class=\"columns\">\n                                    <div class=\"column is-9\">\n                                        <p class=\"time-to-read\">4 min read<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"column is-6-desktop is-hidden-touch\">\n                <div class=\"image-container\">\n\n                    \n                        <div class=\"image-overlay\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/placeholder.jpg');\"><\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"full-width-content-block\">\n\n    \n        <div class=\"container\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n            <div class=\"columns\">\n                <div class=\"column\">\n\n                    <p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Section 277 of Thailand\u2019s Criminal Code, B.E 2499 (1956) provides marital immunity for sexual intercourse with girls under the age of 15 who are said to \u2018consent\u2019, and allows a man who rapes a girl between the ages of 13 to 15 to escape punishment by marrying the victim.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Country:<\/strong>\u00a0Thailand<\/li>\n<li><strong>Law status:<\/strong>\u00a0Discriminatory law in force<\/li>\n<li><strong>Law Type:<\/strong>\u00a0Rape<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sex discrimination in laws purporting to address violence, or silence on the issue within the law, can actually\u00a0<em>promote<\/em>\u00a0or perpetuate violence against women and girls because there is little to deter perpetrators from committing crimes or inadequate recourse for victims; intimate partner and sexual violence is disproportionately inflicted upon women and adolescent girls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Laws explicitly allowing marital rape treat the wife as the property of the husband, and render her vulnerable to sexual violence and abuse within marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Law:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Section 277 of Thailand\u2019s Criminal Code, B.E 2499 (1956)\u00a0<\/strong><strong>provides marital immunity for sexual intercourse with girls under the age of 15 who are said to \u2018consent\u2019, and allows a man who rapes a girl between the ages of 13 to 15 to escape punishment by marrying the victim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Section 277:\u00a0<em>Whoever has\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>sexual intercourse with a girl not yet over fifteen years of age and not being his own wife<\/em><\/strong><em>, whether such girl shall consent or not, shall be punished with imprisonment of four to twenty years and fined of eight thousand to forty thousand Baht. If the commission of the offence according to the first paragraph is committed against a girl not yet over thirteen years of age, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of seven to twenty years and fined of fourteen thousand to forty thousand Baht, or imprisonment for life\u2026..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The offence as provided in the first paragraph, if the offender being the man commits against the girl over thirteen years but not yet over fifteen years of age with her consent\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>and the Court grants such man and girl to marry together afterwards, the offender shall not be punished for such offence<\/em><\/strong><em>.\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>If the Court grants them to marry together while the offender is imprisoned, the Court shall release such offender<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0Section 27 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand:\u00a0<em>All persons are equal before the law, and shall have rights and liberties and be protected equally under the law.\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Men and women shall enjoy equal rights<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacc.go.th\/tacc\/upload\/files\/download_201407041229342.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore Thailand&rsquo;s full law<\/a><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-signpost-block\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","post_tag":[],"resource_type":[],"law_status":[216],"law_type":[224],"issue":[],"region":[],"class_list":["post-1743","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thailand - Criminal Code, B.E 2499 (1956) - Equality Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/resource\/uncategorised\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thailand - Criminal Code, B.E 2499 (1956)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/resource\/uncategorised\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Equality Now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/equalitynoworg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-28T10:10:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/resource\\\/uncategorised\\\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/resource\\\/uncategorised\\\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\\\/\",\"name\":\"Thailand - Criminal Code, B.E 2499 (1956) - Equality Now\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-02T19:00:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-28T10:10:12+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/resource\\\/uncategorised\\\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/resource\\\/uncategorised\\\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/resource\\\/uncategorised\\\/thailand_criminal_code_b_e_2499_1956\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Resources\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/equalitynow.org\\\/ar\\\/resource\\\/%type%\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Thailand &#8211; 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