Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Asia - Voice of America: Thai Court Gives Suspended Sentence to Web Editor

Asia - Voice of America
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Thai Court Gives Suspended Sentence to Web Editor
May 30th 2012, 22:53

A Thai court on Wednesday convicted a website operator on computer crimes charges for not quickly removing a posting by a blogger deemed offensive to the country's monarchy.   The Bangkok Criminal Court gave an eight-month suspended jail sentence to Chiranuch Premchaiporn for not respecting a court order to promptly remove the comments from her popular news website, Prachatai.  She faced up to 20 years in prison. Judge Kampol Rungrat told the court that the comments ...

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