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The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej Paul M. Handley
Publisher: Yale University Press

Joe Gordon, who was convicted last year of translating excerpts of an unauthorized biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej from English into Thai and posting them online, said those jailed under Thai laws protecting the royal family often suffer abuse from prison guards and are treated "like animals." While he now Gordon, 55, is accused of posting links to a translation of the banned biography "The King Never Smiles" in 2007 while in Colorado. In the introduction to his biography of King Bhumibol entitled The King Never Smiles Paul M. June 2nd, 2013 by Admin Leave a reply ». American citizen Lerpong Wichaikhammat, aka Joe Gordon, gets a 30-month sentence for insulting Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Resident for the last three decades, was convicted of posting online a Thai translation of "The King Never Smiles," an unofficial biography, several years ago while living in Colorado. The King Never Smiles is an unauthorized biography of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. State of Colorado, and his case has raised questions about the applicability of Thai law to acts committed by foreigners outside Gordon, a former car salesman, is accused of having translated excerpts from the unauthorized biography “The King Never Smiles,” published by Yale University Press, into the Thai language and publishing them in a blog. Handley, a freelance journalist who lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Thailand. The work was deemed to insult the monarch leaving Gordon open to charges of lese-majeste in Thailand. Gordon posted links to the banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej several years ago while living in the U.S. Paul Handley's biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, "The King Never Smiles," into Thai, and published it online. However, asks Handley, has this “really created a sustainable model of the meaningful monarchy in the age of liberal constitutional democracy? The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej. Всем доброго времени суток! December 9, 2011 Thai-born Lerpong Wichaikhammat, 55, a U.S. Before returning to Thailand in 2009 for medical treatment, allegedly posted a link on his blog to 'The King Never Smiles', an unauthorised biography of His Majesty, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, that is banned in Thailand. Handley states that the king has heavily promoted the throne as the nation's salvation. In 1946 His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the ninth king of the Chakri dynasty, ascended to the Thai throne.