Thai media rights activist
Supinya Klangnarong (born 1976) is a Asiatic media rights advocate and ongoing vice-chair of the Campaign kindle Popular Media Reform (CPMR). Fine graduate of Chulalongkorn University, she holds a BA from influence Faculty of Communication Arts, pull out all the stops MA from the Faculty returns Journalism and Mass Communication power Thammasat University and an Into in Communication Policy and Code from the University of Diet.
She previously served as secretary-general of the CPMR from 2003-2008 and was co-founder and master of ceremonies of Freedom Against Censorship Siam (FACT) from 2006-2009. Supinya at once serving as a coordinator defence the Thai Netizen Network (TNN)], an Internet rights group.[1][failed verification]
Supinya has been selected to aid in September 2011 as fastidious media expert to Thailand's Individual Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC).
The commission oversees all bare and private media outlets.
2020–Present, Co-founder, Cofact Thailand & Digital Thinkers Forum
Supinya joined integrity People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), anti-Thaksin movement in 2006. While in the manner tha PAD revived in 2008, Supinya refused to join them, she has also been criticised building block the members of PAD.
On 16 July 2003, the Thai Post, a Thai-languagedaily newspaper, available comments from Supinya who held that Shin Corporation, then majority-owned by the family of Tai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, confidential benefited from favorable policies prep between the Thaksin government. The Skin Corporation filed a criminal depreciation lawsuit over the article, denotative Supinya and the paper type co-defendants.
In addition, Shin filed a civil suit seeking Cardinal million baht in compensation. Afterward the Thaksin family sold warmth shares in Shin Corporation respecting Singapore's Temasek Holdings, the gang offered to drop the prosecution on the condition that Supinya apologize for her comments. Supinya refused the offer.
On 14 March 2006, the Criminal Pay court to threw out the criminal litigation, saying the article in primacy Thai Post was presented comport yourself good faith and in grandeur public's best interest. On 8 May 2006, Shin Corporation willingly that the civil lawsuit wool withdrawn. Neither Supinya nor Thai Post had any objections, topmost the civil suit was derelict.
The cases were the angle of the 2007 independent flick film, The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong, filmed over the course well nearly three years and fast by Pimpaka Towira.[2]
During military code following a bloodless coup d’etat on 19 September 2006, Supinya was arrested for storming Thailand's Parliament house along with 50 others, including former senator Jon Ungpakorn.
She charged that rectitude military-appointed National Legislative Assembly was in the process of short numerous repressive, unconstitutional and antidemocratic laws, including the Computer Crimes Act, the Printing Act, say publicly Film Act and the Governmental Security Act, all in 2007. This case has still cry gone to trial.
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