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        "title": "Thailand: magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk is sentenced to 11 years under the lese-majeste law",
        "occurred_on": "2013-01-24",
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        "country": "TH",
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        "continent": "asia",
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        "level": "national",
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        "leader_slug": "yingluck-shinawatra",
        "leader_name": "Yingluck Shinawatra",
        "issue_of_the_day": "The two articles that led to the charge, published in Voice of Taksin magazine in February and March 2010, were written under a pseudonym by a former government spokesman living in exile, whom Somyot identified only after his own prosecution began.",
        "outcome": "upheld",
        "outcome_on": "2018-04-30",
        "outcome_note": "Somyot's conviction and sentence were not overturned; he served his full 11-year term and was released on completing it in April 2018.",
        "stage": "eliminate",
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        "era": "2010s",
        "granularity": "granular",
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        "summary": "A Thai court sentenced magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk to 11 years in prison under Article 112 of the penal code, the country's lese-majeste law barring insults to the royal family, over two articles he published under a pen name.",
        "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2013-thailand-somyot-lese-majeste-sentence"
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