Description
25 April: Murray Hunter publishes a piece on his blog criticizing MCMC.
29 April: MCMC denies allegations and lodged a report against blogger Murray Hunter over his claim that the internet regulator and the police had become politicized institutions. It also said Hunter’s comments “seemed to be defamatory”.
30 April: Minister of Communications denies such statements from Murray.
Information
Number of attacked persons or entities related to media
1
Do they work as freelance or media?
Yes
Position in media
Other
Status of journalists
Unknown
Gender
Male
Age
55-64
Country
Songkhla
Full name or name of group
Identified
The name of perpetrator (individual/group)
MCMC
Background (state actor or non state actor)
State actor (Police officer, Military officer, Government, public institution, etc)
Gender
Unknown
Attack mention about gender background/sexual wording?
No
Date of incident
Type of incident
Criminal lawsuit/charge: Defamation
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