 Thanakorn Siripaiboon, a 27-year-old factory worker, was charged in 2015 with insulting the King through a "sarcastic" post about Thongdaeng on Facebook, under the "lèse majesté" law in Thailand.His lawyer, Anon Numpa, informed the "International New York Times" that the charge "had not detailed the precise insult towards the animal".The Bangkok-based printer of the "International New York Times" removed the story from the 14 December 2015 print edition of the paper, just 12 days before Tongdaeng's death.