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Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
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Date Written:  28/04/09
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter

Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.

Abstract:  Twenty-six IFEX members and other organisations urge government to amend lese majeste law

Reporters Without Borders and 31 other organisations urge Thai government to amend lese majeste law.

"I posted a video of the king on the Internet," Suwicha Thakor told Reporters Without Borders from behind a plexiglass screen in Bangkok's Klong Prem prison on 20 April. "The police should have told me what I was doing was wrong. It is not right to be sentenced to 10 years in prison for this. I am not ...
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