BANGKOK: A man in Thailand was given a 50-year prison sentence on Thursday for criticizing the monarchy — the longest jail term ever handed down under the Southeast Asian kingdom's strict royal insult laws, a legal rights group said.
The record-breaking sentence comes after several years in which Thailand has ramped up use of the controversial legislation against pro-democracy protesters in what critics say is a tactic to silence dissent.
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