BANGKOK-A prominent Thai pro-democracy activist was sentenced to two years in prison on July 31 for posting an insult below an upside-down picture of the king on social media, a human rights lawyers group said. Parit Chiwarak, also known as Penguin, was found guilty of infringing Thailand’s stringent royal defamation, or lese majeste, laws during youth-led pro-democracy protests in 2020 to 2021.He is expected to face a further 24 royal defamation charges, according to the Thai Lawyers for Human