Bangkok, Thailand—A Thai court on Tuesday jailed one of the leading figures in the kingdom’s youth-led pro-democracy protest movement for
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.
He raised a three-finger salute as he walked in — a symbol adapted from the “Hunger Games” films that became synonymous with the demonstrations. “The family and friends are trying to submit bail for a temporary release,” he told reporters outside court. Andrea Giorgetta of the International Federation for Human Rights told AFP the jail time was “severe”, describing it as “a long prison sentence for exercising your rights.”He said the conviction rate under 112 remained close to 100 percent.
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