1. Somyot Prueksakasemsuk is a Thai activist and magazine editor who in 2013 was sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment for lese-majeste against King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
13 Facts About Somyot Prueksakasemsuk
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk's sentence drew protest from the European Union and from numerous human rights groups, including Amnesty International, which designated him a prisoner of conscience.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was an editor of the Voice of Thaksin magazine and a prominent labour rights activist affiliated with the Democratic Alliance of Trade Unions who protested for Thai labour law reform.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was not the author of the two articles.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was arrested for lese majeste on 30 April 2011, five days after launching a grassroots campaign to collect ten thousand signatures for a petition that called for reform of the lese majeste law.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was arrested and imprisoned without bail for nearly two years.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk finished his sentence and was released from prison on 30 April 2018.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk played a leading role in demanding justice for a series of disappeared and assassinated lese majeste refugees who had been living in countries neighboring Thailand.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk helped Kanya Teerawut, mother of one of the disappeared, Siam Teerawut, to campaign for his return.
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When Thai political refugee Wanchalearm Satsaksit was kidnapped in front of many witnesses in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was at the forefront of the campaign demanding an investigation and justice for the disappeared dissident.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was arrested again on 16 October 2020, under Article 116 of the Thai Criminal Code, a sedition charge, related to a speech given at a political rally on 19 September 2020.
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Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was arrested again on 9 February 2021, for the speech on 19 September 2020, this time for lese majeste.
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In 2016, Somyot Prueksakasemsuk won the 24th Jeon Tae Il special Labour Award by the Jeon Tae Il Foundation.