| Also in 2008, Harry Nicolaides, an Australian, was arrested at Bangkok's international airport and charged with lese majesty, for an offending passage in his self-published book Verismilitude. |
| In March 2007, a Swiss, Oliver Jufer, convicted of lese majesty, was sentenced to 10 years for spray-painting graffiti on portraits of the king while drunk. |
| Please consider taking action to withdraw the current lese majeste charges, and working to secure the release of those already convicted under the lese majeste law. |
| Some members of your government are even calling for harsher punishments under the lese majeste law. |
| The Thai royal family is protected by the country's lese majesty laws, making it an offence to insult the monarchy. |
| Instead of protecting reputations, these lese majeste cases generate heightened criticism of the monarchy and Thailand itself, both inside and outside the country. |
