Australian charged in Thailand over alleged royal insult
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An Australian man in Thailand has been charged under the kingdom's tough lese majesty laws for allegedly insulting the Royal family.
Our South East Asia correspondent, Karen Percy, reports 41-year-old Harry Nicolaides from Melbourne was arrested in Bangkok on Sunday as he arrived in the country .
He's been visiting Thailand since 2003 and has written a book which mentions members of the royal family.
Thailand has some of the strongest lese majesty laws in the world.
Mr Nicolaides is also a blogger, who graduated from La Trobe University in 1988.
More recently he was a teacher in hospitality at the Mae Fah Luang University in the northern Thai town of Chiang Rai.
The ABC understands Mr Nicolaides was refused bail and is currently in the Bangkok Remand Centre.
