Thailand - Joint statement on the further censorship of websites and media under Emergency Decree

Reporters without borders

After the Thai government has declared a state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding provinces on April 7, 2010, the government has officially blocked 36 websites associated with, or sympathetic to, the red-shirt movement. In further development, Thai Rath daily newspaper in a report on April 16, 2010 cited an anonymous source, stated that 190 further URLs have been blocked [1]. We object to such indiscriminate censorship of political content on the Internet for the following reasons. 1. (...)

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