Thai journalist gets two years in prison for a tweet

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the draconian two-year jail sentence that Thai journalist Suchanee Cloitre has just received for allegedly defaming an agribusiness company in the central province of Lop Buri in a tweet more than three years ago, and calls on Thailand’s justice system to overturn her conviction on appeal.In this David and Goliath case, the Lop Buri provincial court sided with Goliath, the poultry-rearing company Thammakaset, when it convicted

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