Surachai Danwattananusorn

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai political activist was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday for publicly insulting the monarchy, the latest in an extraordinary rise in cases under the world's strictest lèse-majesté laws.

A Thai political activist has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in the latest in a series of convictions under the kingdom's controversial royal defamation laws.