Thai Army’s TV Bans Student Activist From Program After Questioning Coup

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Nattanan Warintarawet (second right), along with the Education for Liberation of Siam (ELS) members, reads statement against the nationalistic 12-Thai values in front of the Ministry of Education last year [Prachatai English].

(Prachatai English)

BANGKOK – The Thai Army’s TV station banned a student activist from a talk program after she raised questions about the the legitimacy of the May 2014 coup d’état to a member of the junta-appointed National Reform Council.

On Friday, staff of the program, called ‘Investigating Hot Issues’ on The Army’s Channel 5 TV, told Nattanan Warintarawet (aka, Nice), an anti-coup outspoken student activist from from Triam Udom Suksa and the Secretary-General of Education for Liberation of Siam (ELS), to leave the studio shortly before the program was taped, according to Nattanan. 

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