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Thailand's Constitutional Court is scheduled to deliver a decision on the term limit of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a ruling that should decide

Thai media restrictions raise freedom of expression concerns DAVID RISING, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Local Thai media interviews Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang at the Wat Srisudaram in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, July 30, 2021. Thailand on Friday has implemented regulations that appear to broaden the governments ability to restrict media reports and social media posts about the coronavirus pandemic, raising immediate concerns authorities will seek to stifle criti...

Thailand’s Creeping Digital Authoritarianism Since the military coup of 2014, Thailand has developed one of the most sophisticated systems of digital surveillance in Southeast Asia. By February 17, 2021 Advertisement January saw a Thai court hand down a record-breaking 43 and a half- year sentence to a Thai woman convicted of breaking the country’s infamous lese majeste law. The court based the conviction on audio clips that the woman had posted on Facebook and Yo...