<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; white-space: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Thailand declared a state of emergency in Bangkok as violence broke out across the capital after police arrested the leader of an anti-government protest group that stormed a regional leaders&rsquo; summit yesterday, forcing its cancellation.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;" class="Apple-style-span">Reuters - A group of anti-government protesters in Thailand forced their way into the interior ministry on Sunday and soldiers there made no attempt to stop them, a Reuters reporter at the scene said.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">Grant Peck, AP &mdash; Thailand's humiliated government arrested the leader of protesters who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit, and the prime minister vowed further crackdowns as the demonstrators regrouped in the capital for renewed rallies Sunday. &nbsp;Arisman Pongruengrong, who spearheaded Saturday's demonstrations, was taken into custody and detained at the headquarters of Thailand's Border Patrol Police on Bangkok's outskirts, police Maj. Gen. Supon Pansua said.</span></p>

<p><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size: 13px;">Reporters Without Borders condemns the use of threats and violence against journalists by anti-government &ldquo;red shirt&rdquo; protesters trying to get the press to increase its estimates of the number of participants in the demonstrations they have been staging for days to press Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign.</span></span></font></p>

<div>Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends press freedom worldwide, would like to draw your attention to the case of Suwicha Thakor. This 34-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for emailing altered photos of King Bhumipol Adulyadej. The sentence is disturbing for human rights activists in Thailand and abroad. It could hurt Thailand&rsquo;s international image and give the impression of a country that is intolerant and opposed to press freedom.</div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;">On April 10, Songkhla Provincial Court postponed the hearing of the Tak Bai case to May 29, because the government had announced the day a special public holiday due to the ongoing political turmoil in Bangkok.</span></p>

<p><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">China&rsquo;s growing interests in Burma&rsquo;s eastern Shan State, from rubber plantations to wildlife trading, is bringing rapid destructive changes to local communities according to</font><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#999999"> </font><font size="2" face="tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>Undercurrents &ndash; Monitoring Development Along Burma&rsquo;s Mekong</em>, released by indigenous researchers today.</font></p>

<p>The global recovery package agreed at the G20 must not be used as artificial life support for a dying economic model, warns ActionAid.</p>

<p>ARTICLE 19, English PEN and Index on Censorship today expressed concern over the ten-year prison sentence given to Thai blogger Suwicha Thakhor, a 34-year-old father of three.</p>

<p>The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) condemns the latest imprisonment of an Internet user in Thailand for posting online supposedly offensive images to the country&#39;s royal family. We are bringing you details of the case and urge you to protest strongly against this use of draconian laws, old and new, to attempt to stifle free expression.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders condemns the 10-year jail sentence which a criminal court in the northeast Bangkok district of Ratchada imposed today on <strong>Suwicha Thakor</strong> for posting content online that was deemed to have insulted the monarchy.</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &#39;Tahoma&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;">On April 3, the Criminal Court sentenced Suwicha Takor to 10 years in prison for his violations of the constitution, the Criminal Code and the Computer Related Crime law.</span></p>