Thursday, 12. April 2007
Topic: NEWS english - on April 12, 2007 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Thai king pardons spray-painting Swiss man
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has pardoned the Swiss man sentenced to 10 years' jail for defacing images of the revered monarch, the BBC reports.
Oliver Jufer was recently sentenced to a lengthy spell in chokey for spray-painting over images of Adulyadej in the city of Chiang Mai last December. He'd apparently been refused alcohol on the king's 79th birthday and took out his sobriety on portraits of Adulyadej.
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