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Thai Woman Gets 43 Years Jail For Insulting Politicians Online

January 25, 2021 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Thai Woman Gets 43 Years Jail

Insulting elites in Thailand is dangerous. The latest news on this front comes from a really interesting article at Malaysia’s The Star Online:

A COURT sentenced a 65-year-old woman to more than 43 years in jail for sharing online posts criticising 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, said. She was initially sentenced to 87 years but because she had acknowledged her violations the court halved this, the lawyer said.

Also see our section on World Democracy or our articles on Worldwide Corruption.

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Asia, Journalism and Free Speech, Political Dissidents, Social Media and Democracy, Technology Dissidents, Thailand

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