Charges Against Thai Blogger Dropped

Curt — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:11:21 +0000

One for the win column. According to RSF, the charges against the pseudonymous Thai blogger Praya Pichai have been dropped.

There is no news about the anonymous woman arrested on the same day as Praya, August 24. Praya was able to afford bail. The woman in question was not.

Thailand’s threatening Computer Crime Act remains intact.

Thai Blogger Released on Bail, Another Arrested

Curt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:09:24 +0000

On September 6, the Thai blogger who uses the name Phraya Pichai was released on bail. This blogger was the first to be arrested under the country’s new “Computer Crime Act,” according to Reporters Without Borders, which had gone into effect on July 18. He had been held for two weeks at Bankok Remand Prison.

According to the Bangkok Recorder magazine, the blogger, a 37-year-old male, was “charged under Article 14 (1) and (2), which prescribes punishment of a maximum five years imprisonment or a THB 100,000 fine for posting false content on the Internet to hurt others and public security.”

According to Prachathai, an online news source, (via The Nation), a second person was also arrested. This “unnamed woman had been arrested on August 24, the same day the 37-year-old webmaster was arrested, and had been detained in the prison since then. It said her family had financial constraints and was struggling to free her on bail.”

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Charges Against Thai Blogger Dropped

Thai Blogger Released on Bail, Another Arrested