Bangkok (AFP) - A Thai human rights lawyer could be sentenced to a maximum 150 years in prison after he was charged with a record ten counts of royal defamation, a rights group said Wednesday.
Prawet Prapanukul, a well-known critic of the law under which he is now being prosecuted, was detained by soldiers and police at his Bangkok home on Saturday.
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