[Marxism] Protest letters needed: Activist Giles Ji Ungpakorn faces arrest for `insulting' monarchy | Links

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*Readers are urged to* *send letters of protest and calling for all 
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 /lèse majesté 
/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

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