The 19-year-old, whose name was withheld, also had a message painted on his body deemed a “mockery to the king”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - A Thai court sentenced a teenager to 12 months in prison for royal defamation on Thursday over a “crop top” outfit he wore to a protest three years ago, a rights group said.
Napasit joined a pro-democracy protest in 2020 wearing a black crop top, a seeming reference to pictures that appeared in some European media several years earlier apparently showing the king wearing a similar article of clothing. “The king is of a sacred status that should not be violated,” the court said in its judgment, according to the legal group.
At least 246 people have been accused of or charged with breaking the royal defamation law since mid-2020, including 20 minors, according to a TLHR tally.
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