The Nation’s senior reporter Pravit Rojanaphruk, who was summoned by the National Council for Peace and Order, was released Saturday afternoon. He said after his release that he was well treated while under detention. He was detained for seven days. News source: The Nation
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance has asked journalists across the Southeast Asian region to share their thoughts about press freedom; and these were uploaded online as part of the campaign to promote and protect free speech. The views expressed by many reporters highlighted the continuing challenges and even growing difficulties faced by the press in […]
People’s Democratic Reform Committee leader Suthep Thaugsuban on Friday night reiterated his call for cooperation from all TV broadcast media to stop live broadcast of announcement by what he called the remaining power tool of the caretaker government with warning of facing power blackout. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
The Thai Journalists Association and the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association on Friday issued a joint statement voicing their opposition to what they described as intimidation of press freedom by the People’s Democratic Reform Committee. The two media organizations said that PDRC supporters had laid siege to five free TV stations namely Channel 3, Channel 5, […]
BANGKOK — A German photojournalist has claimed he was attacked by a group of anti-government protest guards while on assignment at the Constitutional Court today. The incident reportedly happened while Constitutional Court judges were reading the verdict that ultimately found Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and some of her Cabinet members guilty of unlawfully removing the […]
(22 March) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has hit back at an American reporter who called Thai authorities “jerks” for their alleged delay in publishing the flight data of the missing Malaysian jet. Thai officials have previously indicated that military radars manned by the Royal Thai Air Force have detected the suspected presence of flight […]
An American photojournalist, James Nachtwey, was shot in the leg, an Associated Press staff at the scene reported. News source: The Nation
Celebrity protest leader Seri Wongmontha has been accused of launching into an “anti-foreigner” rant in the wake of an interview with a Western journalist. Read more: Bangkok Post
