The Friday issue of the Economist has been withheld in Thailand due to the slanderous nature of one of its articles. The naughty article in question recounts the somewhat embarrassing situation of a writer who slandered the monarchy.
This writer in his book had a brief passage where he was critical of an unnamed royal figure. This most heinous of crimes has landed him a three year jail sentence after he visited Thailand for tourism. The funny part of this story is that his book sold a total of 7 copies and he was not even aware that the material he was writing constituted a criminal offence......... what a fool, right?
Let us hope that the monarch is magnanimous and pardons him like he pardoned the last offender, a swiss man that was sentenced to jail for 10 years because he had been defacing the monarchs image.
Long Live King Bhumibol Adulyadj the Merciful
Update (21/02/09) - The guilty man has been pardoned. Good news.
1 comment:
Fuck that shit, string the guy up!
I wouldn't write "for touristic purposes", necessarily. Probably just "for tourism" or "as a tourist"
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