Doctor arrested over King’s health rumors
Bangkok Pundit: Nov. 19 2009
http://asiancorrespondent.com/bangkok-pundit-blog/doctor-arrested-for-spreading-news-.htm
| Have already blogged on the arrests of the persons arrested under the Computer Crimes Act for alledgedly spreading rumours about HM the King – see here or the more comprehensive report here (in the end it was more for translating news articles reporting that stock market fell on rumors about the health of HM the King than starting the rumor). Then a third person was arrested.
Now, Matichon reports on a fourth with a female doctor at Thonburi Hospital being arrested under Section 14 of the Computer Crimes Act for spreading inauspicious news leading to a fall in stock prices. The police state she was part of a gang spreading news leading the stock market to fall and which caused damage to the national security of the country (เป็นผู้ร่วมขบวนการปล่อยข่าวทุบหุ้นจนส่งผลให้เป็นบ่อนทำลายความมั่นคงของประเทศชาติ). BP: How many will be arrested? btw, understand she was a poster on the Thai language webboards. Anyone know what she got in trouble for posting? |
