2009.03.08
STOP ONLINE MEDIA INTIMIDATION
Reference is made to the arrest of Ms. Chiranuch Premchaiporn, web manager of online newspaper Prachatai (http://www.prachatai.com) by the police at approximately 2.30 pm on Friday March 6, 2009, after which the police investigated her, copied hard disk in her personal notebook computer, and charged her with the violation of Sections 14(1), 14(3), 14(5), and (15) of the Computer Crime Act, which pertain to crimes which “involve import to a computer system of forged computer data, either in whole or in part, or false computer data, in a manner that is likely to cause damage to that third party or the public; that involves import to a computer system of any computer data related with an offence against the Kingdom's security under the Criminal Code; that involves the dissemination or forwarding of computer data already known to be computer data [which are illegal]” and “any service provider intentionally supporting or consenting to an offence …within a computer system under their control shall be subject to the same penalty as that imposed upon a person committing an offence…”