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Published on: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 By: AP Anchan outside the Bangkok Criminal Court. BANGKOK: A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country’s strict law on insulting or defaming the monarchy, lawyers said. The Bangkok Criminal Court found the woman guilty on 29 counts of violating the country’s lese majeste law for posting audio clips to Facebook and YouTube with comments deemed critical of...

A court in Thailand sentenced a former civil servant to 43 years in prison yesterday for insulting the country’s royal family on Facebook and YouTube.

Advertisement As I mentioned briefly in an article yesterday, a Thai court yesterday sentenced a woman to a record 43-and-a-half years for criticizing the monarchy – the most severe sentence ever handed down under Thailand’s controversial lese-majeste law. The Bangkok Criminal Court found Anchan Preelert, a former civil servant, guilty of violating the law on 29 instances, for posting audio clips to Facebook and YouTube with comments deemed critical of the palace. This initially added up to...

Thai court gives record 43-year sentence for insulting king on social media The Bangkok Criminal Court found the woman guilty on 29 counts of violating the country’s lese majeste law for posting audio clips to Facebook and YouTube. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- A woman identified only by her first name Anchan, right, shake hand with a friend as she arrives at the Bangkok Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo | AP) By PTI BANGKOK: A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former c...

Woman sentenced for posting audio clips to Facebook and YouTube with comments deemed critical of the monarchy.

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a...

Anchan, in her 60s, had hoped for leniency and said she did not realise audio she shared was inappropriate

A 65-year-old Thai woman has been handed a ‘shocking’ 43-year jail term, a sentence which Amnesty International claims is the longest ever handed out in the southeast Asian country for criticising the monarchy. Former civil servant, Anchan Preelert, was sentenced to 87 years in jail but her sentence was reduced to half after she pleaded guilty to 29 separate violations. Her total sentence was 43 years and six months. She was convicted for...

A Thai ex-civil servant has been jailed for a record-breaking 43 years and 6 months for sharing audio clips on social media said to defame the country's monarchy.

Thailand: A Woman in Her Sixties Handed a 43-Year Sentence! Published January 19th, 2021 - 11:10 GMT A woman protesting against section 112 of Thailands penal code, which deals with lese majeste at Victory Monument in Bangkok on January 16 Jack TAYLOR AFP/File Highlights She admitted to 23 counts of violating the lese majeste law by sharing audio A former civil servant has been given a record prison sentence of 43 years after admitting to having defamed the monarchy in Thailand. On Tuesda...