I was aware that an obscure law existed,” pleaded the Australian teacher Harry
Nicolaides earlier this week, “but I was not aware it would apply to me.” He
knows better now. A court in Thailand has sentenced him to three years in
jail for a poem he wrote that was deemed offensive to the Thai Royal Family.
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