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| Australian sceptical over call for pardon |
| By Sian Powell - Bangkok |
| Published: 02/18/2009 |
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HARRY NICOLAIDES has endured too much to take any good news on face value. Sitting behind a barrier of glass and bars in Bangkok's remand prison yesterday, the 41-year-old Australian shook his head doubtfully at reports that officials from Thailand's corrections department were pressing ahead with a recommendation for a royal pardon. Tomorrow it will be exactly a month since Nicolaides was convicted of lese-majeste offences and sentenced to three years in prison. His crime? A passage in his self-published novel, Verisimilitude, contains references considered insulting to Thailand's royal family. The 2005 novel only sold seven copies, and Nicolaides was stunned when he was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in August last year. Despite initially denying the charges, he eventually pleaded guilty last month. Now his best hope is clemency from King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a monarch who has taken pity on foreigners in the past. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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