Sentence examples for lese majesty from inspiring English sources

The Thai royal family is protected by the country's lese majesty laws, making it an offence to insult the monarchy.

In March 2007, a Swiss, Oliver Jufer, convicted of lese majesty, was sentenced to 10 years for spray-painting graffiti on portraits of the king while drunk.

Also in 2008, Harry Nicolaides, an Australian, was arrested at Bangkok's international airport and charged with lese majesty, for an offending passage in his self-published book Verismilitude.

In 1894 he published a pamphlet, Caligula, which had the appearance of a historical study but was actually a caustic satire on the German emperor William II; the enormously popular publication brought Quidde three months' imprisonment for lese majesty.

In June, the Thai government, which has removed tens of thousands of web pages in recent years for insulting the royal family, approved the creation of an online crime agency that will pursue alleged violators of the lese majesty laws.

Treating an accurate report from Andrew Gilligan on the Today programme as lese majesty, a British judge, Hutton by name, seemed to ignore the bulk of the evidence and declared the BBC guilty.

"It's not just lese-majesty.

"We don't want people to use lese-majesty too often.

The prime minister is sensitive to lese-majesty; Warsi doesn't do deference.

Ms Tida said activists also wanted to rewrite the constitution and examine the lese-majesty law.

But in this context arse about face is positively lese-majesty.