[HCDX] THAILAND: Junta further undermines press freedom by closing radio stations

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

 THAILAND: Junta further undermines press freedom by closing radio 
stations
http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/asia/thai22sept06na.html
    New York, September 22, 2006?The Committee to Protect 
Journalists denounces further restrictions on press freedom imposed 
by the leaders of Thailand?s military coup.
    The junta issued broadcast media directives Thursday that resulted 
in the closure of more than 300 community radio stations in the north, 
the political stronghold of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

    The new military leaders have moved aggressively to censor opinion 
in favor of Thaksin, whom they toppled in a bloodless coup on 
September 19. They have dissolved Thailand?s 1997 constitution which 
guaranteed press freedom, and the new broadcast rules put the future 
of more than 2,000 community radios across the country in doubt, 
journalists said.

    In another development, the junta-controlled Information and 
Communications Technology Ministry ordered the closure of the Web 
site www.19sep.org, which had posted comments critical of the coup. 
The Ministry also warned the country?s webmasters that they would be 
held responsible for all postings on their sites and urged them to erase 
any references to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, local media reported.

    ?We call upon Thailand?s new military government to cease its 
harassment of broadcast and Internet media,? says CPJ executive 
director Joel Simon. ?Restricting the media is clearly not consistent with 
the junta?s message that it plans to quickly re-instate democracy in 
Thailand.?

    Earlier, the junta had ordered all radio stations to cancel phone-in 
news programs, and television stations to stop displaying telephone text 
messages from viewers. It also ordered Web-based chat rooms to 
screen and censor any comments viewed as provocative to the coup-
makers. To date Thailand?s print media have been unaffected by the 
orders, but concerns are rising that editors have started to self-censor 
news critical of the junta. 
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