No person shall expose the King to any sort of accusation or action (sect. 8). (Thailand Constitution 2007, ASIANLII, <a href="http://www.asianlii.org/th/legis/const/2007/1.html#C02">http://www.asianlii.org/th/legis/const/2007/1.html#C02</a> (last visited Sept. 8, 2009).) The sentence, described as the harshest delivered by the courts in recent times, comes in the wake of a ten-year term of imprisonment handed down in April to another Thai national for violation