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A year after May 19 riots, journalists in Thailand still face safety concerns and impunity issues
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2011-05-20 08:26
 

Exactly one year ago today, the Thai military launched its dispersal operations against the Red Shirt protest rally, which had been going on for three months. The media became a casualty in the conflict, which saw 92 people, including two photographers, being killed and many others wounded.

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Thai history professor faces lèse majesté complaint
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2011-05-11 06:53
 

A Thai history professor who is outspoken on issues concerning the monarchy now faces a complaint of lèse majesté filed by the Royal Thai Army, the independent news website Prachatai.com reported.

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Shooting the Messenger, Undermining Democracy: SEAPA’s Statement on World Press Freedom Day
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2011-05-01 11:31
 

Of all the attacks against media and its practitioners, none is more heinous than the slaying of journalists—and getting away with murder.

Nowhere is this anomaly more pronounced than in Southeast Asia, where by SEAPA’s reckoning at least seven media workers were killed in several countries in 2010 just because they were performing their duties as members of media.

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Thai journalists group to ask prime minister's support for World Press Freedom Day celebration
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2011-05-01 11:30
 

Representatives of the Thai Journalists Association (TJA) and the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association (TBJA) will submit a letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at Government House on 3 May 2011, asking him to throw support behind the  2011 World Press Freedom Day which falls on the same day. The prime minister will be given a T-shirt pin and a campaign T-shirt to mark this important event.

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New cyber crime draft law shelved in face of Thai civil society opposition
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2011-04-24 13:17
 

A bill meant to replace Thailand's controversial Computer Crime Act of 2007 was put on hold by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on 19 April 2011 amidst strong criticism from civil society groups, media reports said.

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Intermediaries are targets in new attempts to suppress free expression online in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2011-02-22 05:34
 

Internet experts from Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia expressed concern about the ongoing regional trend of targeting online intermediaries in attempts to control the flow of information in cyberspace.

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Webmaster's trial highlights Thai IT authorities' criteria, procedure of policing Internet
2011-02-16 14:55
 

The trial of webmaster Chiranuch Premchaiporn, who stands accused of 10 counts of violating the Computer Crime Act (CCA) 2007 as an intermediary who facilitated discussions later deemed as defamatory to Thailand’s royal family, ran for five days before the Criminal Court decided to postpone it to September 1 this year.

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Joint statement by SEAPA and FORUM-ASIA on Proposed NGO Law in Cambodia
2011-01-10 07:17
 

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and FORUM-ASIA, and the undersigned organizations, are deeply troubled by a Cambodia government plan to pass a restrictive law to regulate the activities of local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working inside the country.

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Thai government urged to respect netizens' rights
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2010-12-15 14:47
 

Internet activists in Thailand criticized the government for infringing on the rights of online users and called for amending the controversial Computer Crime Act.

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Countdown to a Farcical Election in Burma
Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
2010-11-05 09:31
 

As the countdown to the national elections in Burma commences, the view that it would be neither free nor fair is almost a foregone conclusion. With both mainstream and new media inside the country being suppressed by military authorities, and outsiders banned from covering, results of the farcical elections will be far from credible.

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