• harry nicolaides to be pardoned

  An update on Harry Nicolaides – he’s set to receive a royal pardon.  Which is great for Harry, but just goes to show that the current Thai legal regime is one in which arbitrary decisions of…

  Posted: February 17th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
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• more lese majeste – associate professor giles ji ungpakorn

  Further to the post about Harry Nicolaides, I thought I would add a link to the case of Associate Professor Giles Ji Ungpakorn, a Thai academic who is seemingly about to be charged under the same antiquated and…

  Posted: January 22nd, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
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• the strange case of harry nicolaides

  

  This is disgraceful: a Melbourne man, Harry Nicolaides, has been jailed in Thailand for three years for insulting the Thai royal family in a novel he has apparently written.  The conviction is a result of Thailand’s anachronistic…

  Posted: January 20th, 2009 ˑ  14 Comments
  Filled under: books, culture, free speech, news, politics, travel