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Thailand aims to hollow out foreign press with new visa restrictions

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Thailand aims to hollow out foreign press with new visa restrictions

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  1. Thailand Visa

  2. Thailand aims to hollow out foreign press with new visa restrictions

  3. Senior Southeast Asia representative Shawn Crispin this week presented CPJ's concerns about new media visa restrictions for foreign reporters based in Thailand to a group of Bangkok-based ambassadors. • The controversial measures, announced last month by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are scheduled to come into force on March 21. The text of Crispin's speech follows: • You’re Excellences, Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak before this distinguished audience.

  4. CPJ has expressed consistent concerns about the steady erosion of press and Internet freedoms in Thailand since the 2014 military coup and suspension of democracy. • Throughout my 17 years of journalistic experience based in Thailand, the situation for reporters, apart from when bullets are flying in the national capital during political protests, has never been more dire. • Thailand Visa Reporters operate in a climate of fear and uncertainty, never sure exactly where the line between permissible and off-limits reporting lies.

  5. The timing of these new restrictions, by our estimation, is no accident. • Foreign reporters have broken a series of exposé stories that the local media missed, ignored or lacked the resources to pursue, which have cast Thailand in an often unfavorable light. • That reporting has often put Prayuth's junta on the back foot at a time it tries to win international recognition of its rule. • Reuters won a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative reporting on the Rohingya boat people's plight and Thailand's shameful role in the abusive human trafficking racket. • [Source: https://cpj.org/blog/2016/03/thailand-aims-to-hollow-out-foreign-press-with-new.php]

  6. Click to know more on Thailand Visa : http://visafromhome.com/thailand-visa/ Thank You….

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