A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old man to two years in jail for selling calendars featuring satirical cartoons of yellow ducks that prosecutors claimed defamed the country’s monarch.
The Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) said Narathorn Chotmankongsin, whom it identified as Ton Mai, was charged with lese majeste, which forbids insulting the monarch.
Narathorn was initially given a three-year jail term for the offense, but the court eventually reduced his sentence to two years in prison without parole for his cooperation, TLHR said in a statement.
Thai police arrested Narathorn and searched his house in December 2020 due to the “yellow duck calendar 2021” that he sold on the pro-democracy Ratsadon Facebook page….