Man jailed for two years in Thailand for selling rubber duck calendars
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A Thai court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to two years in jail for selling satirical calendars featuring rubber ducks, which authorities said insulted the king. Inflatable yellow ducks were used as a symbol during pro-democracy protests in 2020. The sentencing comes as two women were rushed to hospital after staging a weeks-long hunger strike demanding the release of those arrested under Thailand’s draconian lèse majesté law. For more, we talk to Sunai Phasuk, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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