Thailand's Military Junta Forces Cancellation of Press Freedom Conference.

Alan Morison has gone to Thailand to face vicious charges of "defaming the navy".

The idea of prosecuting people for this — regardless of what they may have done — is an injustice. That is the crucial point. The fact that Morison's "defamation" was a paragraph quoted from another publication is a distraction since the charges would be equally unjust if he had written it himself.

"Free" countries such as France that penalize "insults" give cover to Thailand, Egypt and other absolutely tyrannical states that do this.