BANGKOK: A prominent Thai pro-democracy activist was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday (July 31) for posting an insult below an upside-down picture of the king on social media, a human rights lawyers' group said.
Parit Chiwarak (pic right), also known as "Penguin", was found guilty of infringing Thailand's stringent royal defamation, or lese-majeste, laws during youth-led pro-democracy protests in in 2020-21.
