Sunday, March 31, 2013

Thai man sentenced for royal insult

[JURIST] A Thai court on Thursday sentenced 37-year-old Akachai Hongkangwan to three years and four months in prison for violating Thailand's lese majeste law. The lese majeste law found in Article 112 of Thailand's Penal Code [text] allows for anyone who "defames, insults or threatens" a member of the royal family to be sentenced to a prison term of three to 15 years. Hongkangwan was arrested on March 10, 2011, at an anti-government demonstration held in Bangkok where he was...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/03/thailand-man-sentenced-for-royal-insult.php

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