Posted on 03/08/2023 1:12:25 PM PST by BenLurkin
A Thai man was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for selling calendars featuring satirical cartoons of yellow ducks that a court said mocked the country’s monarch, a legal aid group said.
Bangkok’s Criminal Court ruled that the calendar for 2021 containing pictures of yellow ducks in poses resembled and ridiculed Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn, diminishing his reputation, the group Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said.
Yellow rubber ducks were at one point a tongue-in-cheek symbol of Thailand’s pro-democracy protest movement.
Narathorn Chotmankongsin was charged under Thailand’s lese majeste law, which calls for three to 15 years imprisonment for anyone who defames, insults, or threatens the king, the queen, the heir apparent, or the regent.
The court declared that six illustrations in the calendar were made to mock the king.
The legal aid group said the 26-year-old defendant, whom it identified by the nickname Ton Mai, had his sentence reduced to two years because he cooperated with the court.
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Not sure if he’s the one that makes bath time so much fun....
“He’s apparently just 26 years old, but I don’t know how you can live in Thailand even that long without understanding the Lèse-majesté laws...”
Buick ran an ad in China saying their car seats were so comfortable you won’t want to get out of them. They were lambasted for making fun on Xi’s becoming president for life. Very serious for Buick.
What I learned during 35 years in business is that some people in high positions were so paranoid they saw things as aimed at them when no one else did.
I could really get it on in that scene.
I think I could say somethin’ if you know what I mean
But if I really say it, the radio won’t play it
Unless I lay it between the lines!
Headline of the week.
Expect such laws to happen in the US soon... and both parties will support it.
Only 2 years for that. Would have been 20 years if he released unedited and previously unseen video demonstrating another view of a capital protest in DC.
Only to be applied to Demonrat rulers. Republicans you can mock endlessly, and if you don’t, you’ll be attacked.
There are more clever ways to get around such laws, than what the ‘Calendar Boy’ did.
There have been Twitter efforts, public demonstrations, and international human rights organizations that have worked against ‘article 112’.
I think that’s smarter to do than blatantly violating the law.
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