Thai court hands craft beer enthusiast fine, 6-month prison sentence for violating law on advertising alcohol
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Artid Sivahansaphan, a beer enthusiast from Thailand, was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $4,360 for violating a law against advertising alcoholic beverages.
The 2008 Alcoholic Beverage Control Act prohibits "advertising or displaying, directly or indirectly, the name or trademark of any alcoholic beverage." It carries a maximum penalty of one year's imprisonment and a fine of 14,540.
Artid was convicted on Friday by a court in Nonthaburi, just north of Bangkok, for a post on Facebook in 2020. An initial penalty of eight months in prison and a $5,810 fine was reduced to a suspended six-month sentence and a $4,360 fine because the court considered his testimony helpful, he told The Associated Press.
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