Wednesday 16 August 2017

Thai Activist Dealt 2.5 Years in Prison for Facebook Post

Thai Activist Dealt 2.5 Years in Prison for Facebook Post

An activist in Thailand has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after confessing to posting a BBC article on his Facebook account that has been deemed insulting to the nation's monarchy, a rights group said Tuesday. Jatupat Booyapatraksa, 26, was found guilty Tuesday of violating the country's strict lèse-majesté law, which criminalizes all perceived insults to royal family, a representative of Thai legal monitoring group iLaw tells TIME.
Read more: http://time.com/4900936/thailand-pai-dao-din-lese-majeste/?source=Snapzu

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