An Australian author has been jailed in Thailand for three years for insulting the King of Thailand and the royal family. Apparently, he wrote a book which insulted the royal family and stated that his family was better.
The book, which has sold only 7 copies ( so far, but with this publicity might well go on to sell thousands more ) was clearly this poor chap’s demise.
He was seen on the news this morning wearing leg irons and chains walking through the prison along with all the other prisoners.
It’s quite unlikely that he will serve anything close to three years as it’s probable that he’s being made an example of and will receive a pardon after a few weeks or months, but he’ll certainly be deported and listed as being an
