News about Sulak Sivaraksa
2008-11-07 Arrest of Thai academic raises free speech fears. Reuters India.
Again, Sulak Sivaraksa has been arrested on charges of lèse majesté.
Sivaraksa was detained in connection with a university speech he made last December, when he criticised government spending on the lavish 2006 celebrations for King Bhumibol Adulyadej's Golden Jubilee. He was later released on bail.
2007-10-04 Book on democracy banned. Bangkok Post, Thailand.
The Special Branch Police has banned a book on Thai democracy written by Sulak Sivaraksa. They claim the book ''undermines social order and public morals".
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