Asia Sentinel, 23 Dec 2008, John Berthelsen
Thailand’s increasingly prickly Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has issued instructions blocking more than 1,300 websites in 23 countries from Australia to Vietnam over the past several months, according to Freedom Against Censorship Thailand, a press freedom group, which made public a list of the sites over the weekend.
As Thailand’s political crisis has worn on, restrictions and media harassment have continued to increase. The country ranks 124th in the Reporters Without Borders worldwide press freedom index, having fallen from 107th in 2007 and 59th in 2004.
Read More
