By Prachatai |
<p>Thai publisher Same Sky Books has won the International Publishers Association (IPA)’s <a href="https://www.internationalpublishers.org/copyright-news-blog/1256-same-sky-publishing-announced-as-2022-prix-voltaire-laureate">2022 Prix Voltaire</a> award for publishers who uphold the freedom to publish and freedom of expression.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Officers from Rattanathibet Police Station and the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) raided the office of Same Sky Books, a publisher known for its works on Thai politics, yesterday (20 January 2022) and seized its editor’s computer and mobile phone.</p>
<p>Military personnel visited the office f an anti-establishment social-political journal, asking the editor his opinions towards the Thai junta. </p>
<p>Five officers from the 5th Anti-aircraft Infantry at 1:45 pm on Tuesday, 25 August 2015, came to the office of Same Sky Journal (Fah Diew Kan in Thai).</p>
<p>The officers said that they came to introduce themselves to people working at the publication because they have taken over the responsibility to do so in place of those who used to be in charge of the same task.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The military ordered the editor of anti-establishment socio-political Same Sky journal to delete a Facebook status which states the military’s attempt to censor the publishing house. This shows how serious the decline of basic human rights under the junta is in Thailand.</p>
<p>On Sunday afternoon, the military ordered Thanapol Eawsakul, the editor of Same Sky journal (or Fah Diew Kan in Thai), to delete the Facebook status on the conversation with Prajak Kongkirati, a renown political scientist from Thammasat University, at the annual Book Fair in central Bangkok.</p>
By Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation |
<p><em>The past is always subject to editing, omission, co-optation and selective memorisation.</em></p>
<p>This was manifested recently when the red shirts flocked to listen to their leaders' speeches at Muang Thong Thani's Thunder Dome. Before people like Jatuporn Promphan and Nattawut Saigua took the stage, a video showing how resistance to the September 19, 2006, military coup took shape was screened.</p>
By Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation |
<p><em>Two photo books document the movement that swept away the coup-makers</em></p>
<p>On 27 April, Fah Diew Kan editor Thanapol Eawsakul was summoned by the Crime Suppression Division as a witness to possible lèse majesté cases against over 50 people who posted messages on the magazine’s webboard about a couple of years ago. </p>
<p>The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has told Internet Service Providers to deal with offending websites, saying if they fail to do so, the Ministry will close them. </p>
<p>The translation of a Bloomberg news report was posted on the Prachatai webboard jus after 6 pm, after the Thai stock market had already slumped and closed on 14 Oct. The news report in question is Richard Frost’s <em>Thai Stocks, Baht Slump on King’s Health Speculation</em>, whose title indicates that the ‘slump’ had already taken place.</p>
<p>Theeranan Wiphuchanin, using the alias BBB, posted her translation at 18:09. </p>
By Prachatai |
<p><span>The </span><span>Fah Diew Kan (Same Sky) publishing house website was shut down on the night of Jan 4 by its hosting server.</span></p>