By Nirmal Ghosh, Thailand Correspondent

BANGKOK: - Prominent leftist political science professor Giles Ji Ungpakorn fled Thailand over the weekend, ahead of a police hearing on a case accusing him of lese majeste - insulting the monarchy.

Now in Oxford, England, Prof Giles has also released a stinging attack on Bangkok's royalist establishment, in a 'manifesto' e-mailed on Sunday night.

Referring to the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), he wrote: 'The enemies of the Thai people and Democracy may have army, courts and prisons. They may have seized and rigged Parliament and established the government through crimes like the blockading of the airports and other undemocratic actions.

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