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PostSubject: Journalist faces jail after being sued by corrupt Thai navy   Journalist faces jail after being sued by corrupt Thai navy Icon_minitimeMon Dec 23, 2013 11:06 pm
A veteran Australian journalist is facing up to five years in a Thai jail in what human rights activists claim is an attempt to curtail press freedom.

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Alan Morison, the editor of news website Phuketwan, said Thai police accused him and fellow journalist Chutima Sidasathian of defamation last week.

Mr Morison says the charge came five months after his site published excerpts from a news agency report that alleged Thai authorities were trafficking captured Rohingya asylum seekers from Myanmar.

"We were shocked and surprised when we were sued by the Royal Thai Navy, especially given that all we did was carry a paragraph from Reuters," Mr Morison said from his Phuket home on Monday night.
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Mr Morison said the pair were also accused of breaching Thailand's Computer Crimes Act and if convicted face maximum jail terms of five and two years, a fine of up to 100,000 baht ($3400) or both.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/journalist-alan-morison-faces-jail-after-being-sued-by-thai-navy-20131224-2zv2n.html#ixzz2oMV1pZp6
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