The Kingdom and its media are placed under military control; plus heads roll at Spain's three top dailies.
No military coup is complete without a media crackdown. When the military seized control of the country on May 22, Thailand’s new military leader General Prayuth Chan-Ocha declared that the country was under martial law: and nearly half of the provisions in that law served to curb news media. Since then, some international channels were blocked, journalists arrested, others schooled on how to report the coup.
We ask whether this is a permanent state of emergency or a temporary setback for media freedom in Thailand. Our voices are Gayathry Venkiteswaran, executive director of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Duncan McCargo, professor of political science at the University of Leeds, Kasit Piromya, politician with the Democrat party and Giles Ji Ungpakorn Thai-British academic and political activist.
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