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| Subject: Rights violation: Thai woman sentenced to 43 years in jail for insulting monarchy Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:14 pm | |
| A Thai court on Tuesday sentenced a 65-year-old woman to more than 43 years in jail for sharing online posts criticizing the royal family, her lawyer said, the country’s harshest ever sentence for insulting the monarchy.
Her sentence comes at a time of unprecedented youth-led demonstrations in which protest leaders have openly criticised the monarchy, risking prosecution under Thailand’s strict law known as lese majeste, which carries a 15-year penalty for each violation.
Anchan Preelert pled guilty to 29 separate violations of sharing and posting clips on YouTube and Facebook between 2014 and 2015, her lawyer, Pawinee Chumsri, told Reuters.
Anchan was initially sentenced to 87 years but because she had acknowledged her violations the court halved this, the lawyer said.
.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-king-insult/thai-woman-sentenced-to-43-years-in-jail-for-insulting-monarchy-idUSKBN29O15H
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