Thai reporter Suchanee Cloitre talking to an AFP reporter during an interview in Bangkok on Jan 9, 2020. - AFP
BANGKOK (AFP): A Thai journalist sentenced to two years in prison for defaming the owner of a poultry farm via a tweet said on Thursday (Jan 9) that the kingdom's criminal libel laws are eviscerating media freedom.
A court convicted Suchanee Cloitre in December for a tweet referencing a dispute over working conditions at a chicken farm owned by the Thammakaset company.
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