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Activist who called for Thai monarchy reforms jailed for ‘royal insults’

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Prominent Thai activist and lawyer Arnon Nampa was sentenced to four years in prison on September 26, 2023, for what a court judge said were "royal insults". Nampa was convicted under Thailand’s tough lèse-majesté law over a 2020 speech he made in Bangkok at the height of street demonstrations by the youth-led pro-democracy movement, where he called for a reform of Thailand's powerful monarchy. 

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September 26, 2023