Giles 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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