BANGKOK: A Thai property developer was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday under the kingdom’s royal insult law, the latest conviction linked to a scandal that saw the Crown Prince’s ex-wife fall from grace.
Thailand’s lese majeste law is one of the world’s harshest -- carrying up to 15 years in prison per offence -- and has increasingly been exercised by the ultra-royalist generals who seized power in a 2014 coup.
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