Dual citizen and long-term resident of Thailand held over plagiarism claims he made against government official six years agoThailand has freed a British academic and long-term resident who was detained at Bangkok airport for four days after his name showed up on a national blacklist as posing a threat to national security.
Wyn Ellis’s detention appeared to relate to a six-year-ragged dispute in which he proved that the former director of the Thai agency responsible for promoting intellectual property rights had plagiarised his PhD thesis on asparagus cultivation.
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Source: theguardian.com