65-year-old Thai woman sentenced to 43 years in prison for posting social media content
She was initially charged for 87 years of imprisonment, but, since she acknowledged her violations, her sentence was halved to 43 years.
Anchan Prelert
Kathmandu, January 20. A Criminal Court of Thailand on Tuesday jailed a 65-year-old Thai woman accused of sharing online posts insulting the royal monarchy.
Former civil servant Anchan Preelert was initially charged for 87 years of imprisonment, but, since she acknowledged her violations of the “lese majeste”, the court had halved her sentence to 43 years.
Thailand’s “lese majeste” is the strictest law in the world which prohibits any insult to the monarchy.
Anchan said that she had simply shared audio clips from a podcast on social media like Facebook and Youtube between 2014 and 2015. But, she had not written any comments on the content.
A lawyer from the human rights group, Pawinee claimed that this is the country’s longest prison sentence ever seen in a lese majeste case.
The severe law was suspended by UN human rights officials for three years till last year. But since it has revived now, in the past few weeks, more than 40 young activists have been charged for single or multiple times under the law.
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