posted by Renata Avila on Sep 24, 2010
categories: Advocacy, Arrest and Harassment, Feature, Thailand
categories: Advocacy, Arrest and Harassment, Feature, Thailand
Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Prachatai director was arrested atBangkok International Suvarnabhumi Airport.
A Journalist and anti-censorship believer (@Jiew on twitter) was returning from the Conference “Internet at Liberty 2010: The Promise and Peril of Free Expression” held in Budapest.
She leads an important news source for Thailand, a country with a growing record on internet censorship, as reported by OpenNet, human rights violations and actions against freedom of expression Threatened voices has followed and mapped many arrest of Thailand digital activist, including her previous arrest on 2009-2010.
To learn more about her project visit Digital Democracy. If you want to support her please follow this site and donate to her cause. You can also tweet “Help free @Jiew #freejiew #Thailand”.
Chiranuch Premchaipornwas arrested before, on March 6 under Thailand’s Computer Crimes Act. Her charges resulted from allowing comments posted by readers of Prachatai’s online discussion fora alleged to be lèse majesté. On March 31th, 2010, Chiranuch Premchaiporn was release on bail (300,000 baht bond).
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