Royal defamation may cost Thai lawyer longest jail term

‘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.
Activists called for the release of the 57-year-old as authorities refused to disclose his whereabouts or the charges he faced.
But on Wednesday afternoon he appeared in court charged with ten counts of royal defamation and a separate charge of sedition.’
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