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Thai Actors Jailed For Insulting Monarchy With Student Play by Matthew Westphal

“Student Patiwat Saraiyaem, 23, and activist Porntip Mankong, 26, had pleaded guilty to defamation” under Thailand’s lèse-majesté law, the world’s strictest, “following their arrests last August, nearly a year after The Wolf Bride – a satire set in a fictional kingdom – was performed.”

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:59AM on February 26, 2015

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