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More details on Norawase Yospiyasathien, Thailand’s youngest lese majeste arrest

More details on Norawase Yospiyasathien, Thailand’s youngest lese majeste arrest

By Tue, Aug 16, 2011 11:00AM UTC View Comments More details on Norawase Yospiyasathien, Thailand’s youngest lese majeste arrest

More than a week has passed since Kasetsart graduate Norawase Yospiyasathien became the youngest (documented) person to be arrested on lese majeste charges after being controversially reported to authorities by the university’s deputy rector, Nipon Limlamtong, and more details of the case have emerged through media reports. I speculated in my original post that the...

Philippine court asked to drop contempt charges in massacre trial

By Thu, Jun 02, 2011 7:05PM UTC View Comments Pic: AP.

Thirty-eight domestic and international organizations have written to the Philippines’ Court of Appeals, asking the jurists to withdraw contempt charges against National Union of Journalists of the Philippines secretary general Rowena Paraan and Monette Salaysay, widow of Ampatuan massacre victim Napoleon Salaysay. Up to now, no one has been punished in the November 23, 2009 massacre...

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