Thai court jails Thaksin supporter for royal insult

2009/08/27 23:56:48 @Reuters: International News

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Friday sentenced a political campaigner to 18 years in prison for insulting the monarchy, the latest in a slew of lese-majeste cases critics say are stifling dissent and freedom of speech. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_Bq8NFHnPC0:OLp6ajHvXSA:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_Bq8NFHnPC0:OLp6ajHvXSA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_Bq8NFHnPC0:OLp6ajHvXSA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_Bq8NFHnPC0:OLp6ajHvXSA:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_Bq8NFHnPC0:OLp6ajHvXSA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/_Bq8NFHnPC0" height="1" width="1"/
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