<p>Prosecution witness Pol Lieutenant Boonlert Kalayanamitr told the court yesterday that prachatai.com director Chiranuch Premchaiporn had indeed committed a crime by not removing alleged lese majeste remarks posted by others on the site's bulletin board.</p>

<p>Reporters Without Borders participated in the demonstrations that were staged outside Burma&rsquo;s embassies in several capitals today [9 Sept] in response to a call from Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a radio and TV station run by Burmese exile journalists.</p>

<p>The Asian Human Rights Commission is happy to announce the launching of the Asian Alliance against Torture and Ill-Treatment (AAATI).</p>

<p>The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization in Thailand, the Union for Civil Liberty (UCL), respectfully urge you to make effective protection and promotion of human rights a top priority in your administration.</p>

<p>Government officials and police yesterday [Sept 7] disrupted a human rights training session provided by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and the Natural Resource Protection Group (NRPG), and threatened to arrest the organisers. The training was organised for communities affected by the clearing of Prey Lang forest. This is the second time within a month that human rights training events organised by CCHR and NRGP have been disrupted by the authorities.</p>

<p><em>World's major human rights groups unite to campaign for investigation into North Korea's crimes against humannity</em></p> <p>The world&rsquo;s three largest international human rights organizations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), along with 40 other organizations from around the world, today launched a major global campaign to seek the establishment of a United Nations (UN) Commission of Inquiry to investigate crimes against humanity in North Korea.</p>

<p>The not-for-profit prachatai.com online newspaper has come under ferocious accusations of late, to wit that the left-leaning newspaper is actually a fake and an agent of the &quot;neo-imperialist&quot; United States, to use the word of its accuser, who comes by the name of Tony Cartalucci.</p>

<p>A report released on Sept 6 reveals the disturbing extent to which China has advanced construction of a trans-Burma oil and gas pipelines project despite raging conflict and associated abuses.</p>

<p><em>Corporate mass media filter their information. So does the Internet</em></p> <p>Dateline Earth: As if the Planet Mattered<br /> By Kunda Dixit<br /> Published by IPS Asia-Pacific Centre Foundation, 2011<br /> Available at Asia Books, Bt450<br /> Reviewed by Pravit Rojanaphruk</p> <p>&quot;Dateline Earth&quot; is both an informal textbook suited to journalism students and a thought-provoking challenge to notions about corporate and online media.</p>

<p>Defamatory remarks against the Royal Family rose in number after the 2006 military coup left some people unhappy with the palace, prosecution witness Pol Maj-General Surapol Tuanthong told the court yesterday [2 Sept]. He was testifying in the computer crime case against prachatai.com online newspaper director Chiranuch Premchaiporn.</p>

<p>It is time the EU work to establish a UN-led Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity and other crimes under international law in Myanmar.</p>

<p>A new judge presiding over the hearing of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of prachatai.com, who faces criminal charges for not removing messages deemed offensive to the monarchy &quot;quickly enough&quot;, said the ruling would be based on the technicality of whether the suspect collaborated with the posters or if she just failed to remove the posts in time.</p>