A Thai journalist has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for publishing articles said to have insulted the country's monarch.
Somyot Prueksakakasemsuk was editor of the now-defunct Voice of Taksin news magazine and is a political activist with the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship.
He was arrested in April 2011 while attempting to cross the border into neighbouring Cambodia. He was held in pre-trial detention for 20 months.
Somyot faced a possible 30 years in prison on two separate charges under the country's lѐse majesté law, which prohibits insults to the royal family.
His lawyers argued that he should not be held liable for the two articles, which were written by Jakrapob Penkair, a former government spokesman who lives in self-imposed exile in Cambodia.
Source: CPJ
