‘It is a dark day for justice’

Speaking his mind: Anon talking to the media on his arrival at Bangkok Criminal Court. — AP

A Thai court jailed one of the leading figures in the kingdom’s youth-led pro-democracy protest movement for four years on royal insult charges.

Thailand has some of the world’s strictest royal defamation laws, which shield King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close family from criticism and which critics say have been weaponised to silence dissent.