BANGKOK: A Thai man was sentenced Wednesday to six years in jail for two Facebook posts about the king that were deemed in breach of the country’s draconian royal defamation law.
The conviction is the latest jail term handed down in an unprecedented lese majeste crackdown launched since arch-royalist generals seized power in a May 2014 coup.
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