Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of independent online newspaper prachatai.com was released on bail yesterday after her relatives posted Bt200,000 bail with Khon Kaen police. Police said the 43 year-old webmaster was arrested at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Friday after her arrival from Finland, following an arrest warrant from Khon Kaen Provincial Court. She was accused of […]
Chiranuch Premchaiporn was detained by immigration police at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 2.30 pm today upon arrival from a trip to the Internet at Liberty 2010 Conference in Hungary. The police showed an arrest warrant issued by Khon Kaen Provincial Court, and she will probably be sent to the province today. Currently, the charges are not […]
BANGKOK, Aug 23 — Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has not yet concluded its investigation into the deaths of 91 people, including the Italian photographer and Japanese cameraman, killed during the ten-week street protests by anti-government Red Shirt protesters. Pol Col Narat Sawettanant, deputy DSI chief and spokesman, told a news conference on Monday […]
POLICE are looking for a Hua Hin bar girl and her boyfriend over the vicious slaying of a well-known expat journalist who was the editor in chief of Asia Times online (Atimes.com). Allen George Quicke, 57, was stabbed seven times and beaten about the head with what appeared to be a baseball bat at his […]
Two journalists died and several others were injured during the country’s political unrest. A CPJ investigation has found that both security forces and protesters engaged in reckless behavior—and in the aftermath, the government has done little to bring anyone to account. A CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin. After Thai security forces and antigovernment […]
BANGKOK, July 22 – An independent reporter on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and other 12 persons for attempted murder and mayhem in the army’s security operation to retake the anti-government Red Shirt rally site at Khok Wua intersection on April 10. Bodin Watcharobol, who described himself as an independent […]
Canadian journalist Nelson Rand is home after being shot three times during Bangkok’s violent protests this May. “Ironically, my worst wound right now is not from a bullet, but from a ride to the hospital,” Rand said in a phone interview Wednesday. When a stranger drove him to the hospital on a motorcycle after he […]
Thousands of mourners are expected to attend the funeral of renegade Thai general Khattiya Sawasdipol, who was shot in May as he backed anti-government protesters in Bangkok. Some 1,000 police are being deployed in the capital, although police say they do not expect trouble. Maj Gen Khattiya, known as Seh Daeng (Commander Red), was shot […]
