Thailand

Organized social media informant groups, which often target their own friends and families, may be putting Thailand at the cutting edge of a worrying new digital trend: Social surveillance.

The military-appointed National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) is proposing a bill that will create a media regulatory body to impose additional regulations for the media in Thailand.

PEN International welcomes the early release of student activists Patiwat Saraiyaem and Pornthip Munkong following a royal pardon.

Two television reporters in Thailand have been suspended for a 10-day period under pressure from military authorities and state media regulators over their critical news coverage.

The pre-referendum period in Thailand has seen a spike in clampdowns on freedom of speech and freedom of the media under the military junta.

Online news site reporter becomes one of several arrested this month for violating Article 61 of the 2016 Referendum Act.

Shots were fired at a Thai journalist’s car in what is believed to be a work-related incident.

The Thai military should immediately withdraw its criminal complaints against three human rights defenders for reporting alleged torture by government security forces in southern Thailand

The charges against the Facebook users in Thailand are part of the junta’s systematic repression of peaceful dissent and criticism since the military coup in May 2014.

Human rights defender Somyot Phrueksakasemsuk is currently incarcerated in Bangkok’s Remand Prison, where he is serving a 10-year sentence following his conviction on charges of lèse-majesté.

RSF condemns the Thai military junta’s censorship of Pravit Rojanaphruk, an outspoken journalist who has been denied permission to travel to Finland to attend a UNESCO event in Helsinki on 3 May 2016 marking World Press Freedom Day.

Sedition charges for a Facebook photo expressing symbolic support for Thailand’s political opposition shows the military junta’s utter disregard for peaceful dissent.

Thai authorities should immediately provide necessary medical treatment to Thanet Anantawong, a critic of Thailand’s junta who was arrested in his sickbed and has been held in military custody since 13 December.

A new Privacy International investigation reveals Microsoft’s complicity in a serious case of Government persecution in Thailand. It is a shocking example of how Western companies not only work with governments that fall considerably short of international human rights standards, but can actually facilitate abuses of human rights.

A year and a half after a military coup in Thailand, RWB is releasing a report about the Thai military’s skilfully orchestrated crackdown on freedom of information.

The IFJ said “We condemn the charges against Anthony Kwan, who was simply carrying the equipment for his own personal safety. The IFJ supports and advocates the rights of journalists to safe and secure working conditions, including the right to protect themselves adequately in the field.”