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– Thailand's Supreme Court reduces editor's sentence in lèse majesté case (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News February 24, 2017

The Thai Supreme Court reduced the penalty of editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk from 10 to six years in prison in a lèse majesté case; Somyot has been in jail since April 2011.
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