Journalists in Thailand Face Prison for Quoting Pulitzer-Prize Report
In a bleak indication of Thailand’s growing hostility to press independence, two Phuket journalists were due to go on trial Friday in a defamation suit brought by the Royal Thai Navy for quoting a Pulitzer Prize-winning story by the Reuters news agency on the navy’s involvement in trafficking Rohingya immigrants from Myanmar. The two were jailed briefly…
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