Thailand - Royal Thai Navy sues two journalists for quoting Reuters report

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal defamation charges brought against Alan Morison, an Australian journalist based in the southwestern province of Phuket who edits the news website Phuketwan, and Chutima Sidasathian, a Thai journalist who works for the site. The Phuket police charged and fingerprinted Morison and Chutima on 18 December in response to a Royal Thai Navy complaint about a 17 July report on the site mentioning a Reuters claim that the navy took money to turn a (...)

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