A Thai court denied bail for an activist lawyer sentenced to four years in prison for royal insults, his lawyer said, in one of the South-East Asian country’s highest-profile lese-majeste cases.
Human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa (pic), 39, is widely known for a speech during pro-democracy protests in 2020 when he broke taboos by calling for public debate on the role of Thailand’s powerful king. Arnon denies wrongdoing.
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