<p>People are not really questioning the government's decision to censor media, simply because they believe it is acceptable under the emergency decree, said Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster of prachatai.com, which is being blocked because it is considered to be pro-red shirt.</p>

<p>Like a nightmarish deja vu, we customers were told to immediately leave the True Coffee shop at Siam Square at 3.25pm yesterday.</p>

<p><em>Amnesty International Briefing</em></p> <p><em>The following remarks were given by Benjamin Zawacki, Amnesty International&rsquo;s Myanmar Researcher, at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, on 11 May 2010.</em></p>

<p>[Media release]&nbsp;RATCHAPRASONG, MAY 10, 2010: After several days of internal discussions leaders of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) today responded to the five-point road map of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.</p>

<p>Despite the bid for reconciliation by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the continued censorship and harassment of red-shirt media is a key factor why the protesters and their leaders have not left the Rajprasong area yet.</p>

<p>(7 May 2010) Thai media groups and members of civil society agreed in the&nbsp;recently concluded World Press Freedom Day observance in Bangkok&nbsp;that fair and responsible reporting is crucial in addressing the&nbsp;political crisis in the kingdom.</p>

<p>The summoning of student activists supporting the red-shirt movement&nbsp;was unbecoming for a government claiming to be democratic, said one of&nbsp;three student activists summoned to the 11th Infantry Regiment by the&nbsp;Centre for Emergency Situation Resolution.</p>

<p>Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 3, 2010 - On the occasion of World Press&nbsp;Freedom Day (3 May) AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio&nbsp;Broadcasters, calls on governments and international agencies to respect&nbsp;the communication rights of communities struck by disaster and to&nbsp;recognise the vital role of community media in disaster response and&nbsp;reconstruction.</p>

<p>The list of Predators of Press Freedom, released each year on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, has 40 names this year &ndash; 40 politicians, government officials, religious leaders, militias and criminal organisations that cannot stand the press, treat it as an enemy and directly attack journalists. They are powerful, dangerous, violent and above the law.</p>

<p>The government's claim that an anti-monarchist movement aims to overthrow the monarchy may backfire and negatively affect the institution unless the Abhisit Vejjajiva government produces evidence soon to back up the allegation, noted historian and former rector of Thammasat University Charnvit Kasetsiri has warned.</p>

<p>Bangkok/Brussels, 30 April 2010: The Thai political system has broken down and seems incapable of pulling the country back from the brink of widespread conflict. The stand-off in the streets of Bangkok between the government and Red Shirt protesters is worsening and could deteriorate into an undeclared civil war. The country's polarisation demands immediate action in the form of assistance from neutral figures from outside. It is time for Thailand to consider help from international friends to avoid a slide into wider violence. Even the most advanced democracies have accepted this.</p>

<p>(New York, April 30, 2010) &ndash; The Thai government should prosecute perpetrators of political violence on all sides to stop the increasingly deadly conflict in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today.&nbsp;</p>