BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
PHUKET, Thailand - A British BBC journalist appeared in a Thai court on Wednesday for the start of a criminal defamation trial brought by a lawyer who featured in an investigation about foreigners being scammed of their retirement homes.
Jonathan Head, the BBC's Southeast Asia correspondent, faces up to five years in jail at the private prosecution on the popular tourist island of Phuket
Rights groups have said the case exposes how Thailand's broad defamation and computer crime laws scupper investigative journalism and make it difficult to uncover wrongdoing in an endemically corrupt country.
The prosecution was sparked by a 2015 report by Head detailing how two foreign retirees had Phuket properties stolen from them by a network of criminals and corrupt officials.
One of the victims, British national Ian Rance, is a joint defendant in the prosecution. Both have pleaded not guilty.
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I hope the BBC exposes to the world how screwed up Thailand justice system really is through this case. A country where rich people can kill a policeman and get away with it but a poor couple pick mushrooms in a protected forest and get sent to jail for five years.
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Previous on this, and other media problems in Thailand:
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Re: BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
Ian is a part of this case because he 'liked' something on social media.
It really is a shit case!
It really is a shit case!
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What's at stake ?
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/ ... l/30324659Rance and Head face one charge of criminal defamation, which carries up to two years in jail.
Head faces an additional charge under Thailand's Computer Crimes Act, a broadly-worded law which forbids uploading "false data" online and carries a five-year maximum jail penalty.
Unlike most countries where defamation is a civil crime, in Thailand it is a criminal offence.
Private citizens can also launch their own prosecutions and they are not forced to pay costs if they lose.
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Re: BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
Ian who? Are you talking about Ian Rance? he is one of the two victims that Jonathan Head was trying to report on
He is also a co-defendant with Jonathan Head in this case because he alleges that the parties BBC were trying to interview played an integral part in
him losing £2 million worth of real estate.
So you rush around trying to recover your stolen money and in the process you get accused of being a criminal yourself through criminal defamation!
There are no words to describe the injustice of this
Re: BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
Yes there are.
TiT.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
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Re: BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
Yes, Ian Rance. He told me that the lawyer who brought this case was the same lawyer who forged his signature. TIT, and I'm elated that I'm out!obelisks wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:58 pmIan who? Are you talking about Ian Rance? he is one of the two victims that Jonathan Head was trying to report on
He is also a co-defendant with Jonathan Head in this case because he alleges that the parties BBC were trying to interview played an integral part in
him losing £2 million worth of real estate.
So you rush around trying to recover your stolen money and in the process you get accused of being a criminal yourself through criminal defamation!
There are no words to describe the injustice of this
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Re: BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
Can't wait for Phuket Richard next rant on how better Thailand is compared to Kh.
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Re: BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
To each their own
In Cambodia i understand that the journalist are paid to NOT report the news
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41023226Charges have been withdrawn against a BBC journalist in a criminal defamation case in Thailand.
Jonathan Head faced up to five years in jail if he had been convicted.
He and a co-defendant appeared in court in Phuket at the start of the trial on Wednesday. Both pleaded not guilty.
"The plaintiff has withdrawn his case against BBC journalist Jonathan Head, but as the trial of his co-defendant is continuing, we cannot comment further at present," a BBC statement said.
In Cambodia i understand that the journalist are paid to NOT report the news
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: BBC journalist on trial for Thailand crime reporting
It's not something that's peculiar to Cambodia, by any stretch of the imagination.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 9:41 amIn Cambodia i understand that the journalist are paid to NOT report the news
In how many countries is the news still not adjusted or censored due to financial interests?
If you've had the misfortune to have been watching CNN lately, they are living in a parallel universe of their own, where the only thing that matters is berating Trump.
PS my thumb slipped on the remote, I apologise.
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