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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Patarapong Intarakumnerd
[mailto:patarapong@nstda.or.th] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:22
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<DIV></DIV>From <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.sameskybooks.org/board/index.php?s=f6c2318907196f595c16680b0e6be0d9&showtopic=7032">http://www.sameskybooks.org/board/index.php?s=f6c2318907196f595c16680b0e6be0d9&showtopic=7032</A><BR><BR>Situation
in Kingdom of Thailand<BR><BR>1. ICT to ‘hack & crack’ foreign websites
offensive to Thai supreme institution<BR><BR>The Information and Communications
Technology Ministry is to ‘hack and crack’ foreign <BR>websites deemed offensive
to Thailand’s revered institutions.<BR><A
href="http://facthai.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/ict-to-hack-and-crack/"
target=_blank>http://facthai.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/ic...hack-and-crack/</A><BR><BR>2.
The man who refused to stand up for royal antheme faces charges<BR><BR>Chotisak
Onsoong, a social activist and a co-founder of the Anti 19 Sep Coup Network,
<BR>has just been charged with lese majeste because he had refused to stand up
for the <BR>royal antheme in a cinema. News about the incident can be read here
(ENG language): <A
href="http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/22/national/national_30049860.php"
target=_blank>http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/22...al_30049860.php</A><BR><BR>Of
course, no other newspapers reported about that event.<BR><BR>Now, many months
later, the police has charged Chotisak with lese majeste, and he might <BR>have
to show up in court in order to defend himself if the Supreme Police Committee
had <BR>decided to have him sued. Mr. Songkran Pongboonchan, Chotisak's lawyer,
said he would <BR>seek help from the Councils of Lawyers and other human rights
organizations, if possible, <BR>because this matter definitely had a lot to do
with personal belief and individual rights. Read<BR>the story here (THAI
language): <A href="http://www.prachatai.com/05web/th/home/11780"
target=_blank>http://www.prachatai.com/05web/th/home/11780</A><BR><BR>Basically,
there is no laws that obviously threatens to press charge on people who refused
to <BR>stand up for national or royal anthem. However, lese majeste can always
come in handy.<BR><BR>What would happen if Chotisak goes on courts and loses his
case? Lese majeste laws can <BR>sentence people up to 15 years in jail.
Recently, there was a foreigner who had been convicted <BR>of lese majeste and
subject to 10 years sentence for defacing the king's picture while he was
<BR>drunk--although he was pardoned by the king later, as a "save face policy".
Read the story here <BR>(ENG language): <A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6505237.stm"
target=_blank>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6505237.stm</A><BR><BR>Additionally,
a BBC correspondent in Thailand has just been charged with lese majeste
yesterday <BR>(April 8th). Mr. Jonathan Head has joined a seminar on Thai
politics called "Coup, Capital, Crown" <BR>in December last year when he
reportedly "insulted the supreme institution by his words". Read the <BR>story
here (THAI language): <BR><A
href="http://matichon.co.th/matichon/matichon_detail.php?s_tag=01p0145090451&day=2008-04-09&sect;ionid=0101"
target=_blank>http://matichon.co.th/matichon/matichon_de...sect;ionid=0101</A><!--QuoteEnd-->
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