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Thai editor gets shorter jail time for royal insult

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BANGKOK: Thailand’s Supreme Court reduced the sentence of a prominent former magazine editor who had been jailed for 10 years for insulting the country’s monarchy, a legal group said.

Somyot Prueksakas­emsuk was found guilty of publishing two satirical articles defaming the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2010 when he was editor of an anti-establishm­ent magazine.

The royal insult law, also known as lese-majeste, is punishable by a jail term of up to 15 years for each offence. — Reuters

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