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Thailand has sentenced Australian writer Harry Nicolaides to three years in prison for “insulting” the Thai monarchy in a novel that reportedly sold only seven copies.

You can read the paragraph from his book “Verisimilitude” that apparently led to his arrest here.

And here’s a blog post written last year by someone who knows Mr. Nicolaides: Free Harry Nicolaides

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