Academic faces charges over book
21 Jan 2009Giles Ji Ungpakorn, professor of political science at the University of Chulalonkorn, has been charged with insulting the king in his book A Coup for the Rich, published in 2007.
The book deals with the 2006 ousting of Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra by royalist generals. Ji believes the charge is intended ‘to prevent all discussion about the possible relationship between the army and the monarchy in the coup’. Australian writer Harry Nicolaides was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison under the country’s harsh lèse majesté laws.
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Index on Censorship » Thailand: criminalising dissent
[...] of lèse majesté and started his three-year jail sentence in Bangkok, Thai political scientist Giles Ji Ungpakorn was charged with the same offence, and oil-rig engineer Suwicha Thakhor was detained without bail [...]