Thailand’s Journalist faces 50 years in jail just too late to erase his reader’s comments.

Reporters Without Borders calls for the withdrawal of all charges against journalist Chiranuch Premchaipoen, the editor of Prachatai.com website, who is facing up to 50 years in prison under the computer crimes for failing to remove comments from her site with sufficient speed. Posted by visitors, the comments are deemed to have insulted the monarchy.Arrested and charged on 31 March, Chiranuch was released after three hours when her sister stood guarantee for the 300,000 bahts (6,000 euros) in bail demanded by the judicial authorities.“Once again, the lèse majesté and computer crimes laws are being used politically to control and intimidate people with dissenting views,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Amid the current political tension, the Thai public has greater need than ever to receive the kind of objective and quality news that Prachatai.com provides.”
The press freedom organisation added: “The charges brought against Chiranuch constitute a serious violation of free expression. They are not in accordance with the promises the authorities gave last January to combat abuses of the lèse majesté law.”Chiranuch’s trial is due to start on 31 May. She has been charged before a criminal court under articles 14 and 15 of the computer crimes act. The charges concern comments posted on the website in 2008, which Chiranuch removed quickly as soon as they were brought to her attention
The press organizations which his jobs is to defend the Journalist works in the world ‘’Reporters without Borders’’ vow the Thailand’s Attorney to write off their defamations cases to Thailand’s Journalist women Chiranuch Premchaipoen who was face a 50 years to stay in Jail cause by her late decisions to erase her readers comments on her articles about the Thailand’s kingdom in her online media Prachatai.com.
The Thailand’s attorney charge the Journalist was doing a computer crime by did not erase the readers’ comments about the Kingdom and Politics in Thailand’s. Chiranuch will attend the courth hearing next May 31, 2010. The Thailand’s court will also charge other Journalist with the same charge, Tantawut Taweewarodomkul, an Webmaster of two website of (norporchorusa.com and norporchorusa2.com) which on their articles support the oppositions ‘’red t-shirt’’ stand to opposed the government.
About 10 Thai blogger were face the same cases, one of them is Suvicha Thakor who was sentenced in Jail about 10 years.

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