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Thai webmaster guilty, jail suspended under royal slur law


Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of Prachatai website, smiles as she talks with reporters at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, May 30, 2012. A Thai court sentenced Chiranuch to an eight-month suspended sentence for failing to act quickly enough to remove Internet posts deemed insulting to Thailand's royalty. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

BANGKOK – A Thai court on Wednesday convicted an online editor for hosting posts critical of the revered monarchy on her website, but suspended her jail sentence amid demands to reform the lese majeste law.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn was found guilty of failing to speedily delete comments by other people deemed insulting to the royal family from her popular news website, Prachatai. The Bangkok court fined her 20,000 baht ($630).

But Judge Kampol Rungrat, while sentencing Chiranuch to eight months in jail, suspended the sentence for a year, saying that she had cooperated with the court and had “never violated the (lese majeste) law herself”.

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  • AdyMarty

    anti-cybercrime bill (hb 5808) Awareness!!!  just passed by the house of representatives

    It includes ON-LINE LIBEL and much stiffer penalties. This was passed while everyone is busy with Corona
    If this bill goes unnoticed and combine with the senate anti-cybercrime bill. We will loose our right to PRIVACY and right to FREEDOM OF SPEECH

    This bill can have same effect like the Thai woman. The Government can shut us down if they don’t like our opinions

  • http://twitter.com/Borogol Borogol

    ok, next the webmaster of ashigakari . who helped chinese script kiddies to take down massive PH domains…. if you guys just happen to see the logs posted months ago, the site had it up all vulnerabilities of the attacked site, including database connection strings… 



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