PEN on decriminalisation of lesè majesté; RWB and Committee to Protect Journalists; news on Ji Ungpakorn
Both Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have both sounded the alarm over the status of free speech in Thailand. Read RSF’s statement of 27 January 2009: “Authorities continue to crackdown on free expression under guise of protecting king“. Read CPJ’s letter of 27 January 2009 to PM Abhisit: “CPJ worried about deteriorating Thai media climate”
Citing the disturbing rise in lesè majesté cases in recent months, English PEN called for the decriminalization of all speech generally and for support of Giles Ji Ungpakorn’s case. Take action here.
Freedom Against Censorship Thailand critiques the empty promises of PM Abhisit to safeguard freedom of speech in a 28 January 2009 statement: “New Censorship: PM’s Empty Promises”
The Thai Netizen Network outlines the problems and proposes a series of solutions to the current internet censorship crisis in a recent interview with Pravit Rojanaphruk of the Nation, “Is internet censorship getting out of hand and hurting users’ freedom?”
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