Thailand - Thai navy attack fails to sink news website

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders welcomes today's decision by a court in the southern city of Phuket to acquit two news website journalists in an abusive criminal defamation case brought by the Royal Thai Navy that had dragged on for 20 months. Alan Morison, 65, the Australian editor of the Phuket-based website Phuketwan, and Chutima Sidasathian, a Thai reporter who covers the Rohingya refugee issue for Phuketwan, had been facing up to seven years in prison on charges of libel and violating the (...)

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