The Criminal Court on Thursday acquitted a 65-year-old vendor of a charge of lèse majesté. He had been arrested for selling the banned book ‘Devil’s Discus’ at yellow shirt rallies in 2006.
The book, written by English-South African author Rayne Kruger and published in 1964, was declared illegal by the Thai authorities in 2006. The police deemed the book offensive to the monarchy since it dealt with the mysterious death of Thailand’s King Ananda Mahidol, (King Rama VIII) who reigned from 1935 to 1946.
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