Concern about the arrest of the prominent Thai journalist, Pravit Rojanaphruk, is growing. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has joined the chorus of protests at his military detention.

The Guardian reported on Monday that Pravit had been held after being summoned by representatives of Thailand’s junta, known as the National Council for Peace and Order.

After disappearing inside army headquarters in Bangkok, reporters were told Pravit had been detained because of articles that “could cause confusion and misunderstandings” and for “presenting information that is not in keeping with the (junta) guidelines promoting peace and order”.

It was therefore necessary, said a junta spokesman, for Pravit to undergo “attitude adjustment”. He has been held incommunicado...

Pravit has written stories criticising Thailand’s lèse majesté law and has been critical of the 2014 military coup. On Saturday (12 September), Pravit posted a tweet about a visit to his house by two military officers while he was out.

The following day, in his last tweet before his detention, he wrote: “Freedom can’t be maintained if we’re not willing to defend it”...

BANGKOK – A Thai journalist just freed from detention by the military government has resigned under pressure from his newspaper.

Pravit Rojanaphruk said Wednesday that The Nation newspaper asked him to resign because of pressure it received after he was detained. He said he agreed because he considered the newspaper to be like his own home, which he didn't wish to destroy.

Pravit was detained Sunday by soldiers and held incommunicado until Tuesday for what the military calls "attitude adjustment." He has been a rare outspoken critic, in newspaper columns and on Twitter, of the junta that has ruled since a military coup last year ousted a civilian government. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has harshly criticized journalists and other critics of the coup.
No comment was immediately available from the newspaper.