(Reuters) – Thai activist lawyer, Arnon Nampa, jailed without bail since February on charges of insulting the country’s powerful king, has contracted coronavirus in custody, a corrections department official said on Thursday.

“Arnon tested positive for COVID yesterday and at the moment he has been sent to the prison hospital for treatment,” a corrections department official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Arnon’s Facebook page also reported he had contracted the coronavirus.

(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat; Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by Ed Davies)

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