Protest letters needed: Activist Giles Ji Ungpakorn faces arrest for `insulting' monarchy | Links
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charges against Giles Ji Ungpakorn to be dropped. Send them to the
Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at Government House,
Bangkok, Thailand, fax number +66 (0) 29727751. Please also write
letters of protest to the ambassador of the Royal Thai embassy in your
own country.*
By *John Berthelsen*
/Asia Sentinel/ -- January 12, 2009* -- Giles Ji Ungpakorn*, a political
science professor at Thailand's Chulalongkorn University and a
well-known socialist activist, has been ordered to appear at a Bangkok
police station to be charged under the country's stiff /lhse majesti
/laws for insulting the country's monarchy.
Ungpakorn has written a series of flame-throwing articles which have
appeared in /Asia Sentinel/ and /Links International Journal of
Socialist Renewal/ <http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/296>, among other
publications, charging that a royalist and anti-democratic alliance made
up of what he called the "fascist" People's Alliance for Democracy
(PAD), the military, the police, the judiciary, most middle-class
academics and especially Queen Sirikit of perpetrating a royalist coup
that kicked two democratically elected governments out of power.
Full article at http://links.org.au/node/850