Alert: Free Burma spokesman SULAK

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Subject: Alert: Free Burma spokesman  SULAK SIVARAKSA

sonny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

If I am not mistaken, Sulak was invited and participated at the Delhi
Convention for the restoration of democracy in Burma,hosted by Indian MP
and former minister, George Fernandez, in January 1996, in part
coordinated by OSI's Burma Project. It would appear that Sulak is in
deep trouble at this time, and in need of support.

Does anyone have information about this case? Or where to send letters
of support? 

Thank you.
Dawn Star, 
Euro-Burmanet, Paris
http://www-uvi.eunet.fr/asia/euro-burma/
> 
> Social critic Sulak faces new case of lese majeste
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> 
> Bangkok, Wednesday, February 12, 1997
> 
> THAILAND'S leading social critic, Sulak Sivaraksa, is to be arrested on
> lese majeste charge again.
> 
> Senior police officers yesterday listened to a cassette tape of Mr Sulak's
> speech given recently in Los Angeles and concluded that its contents
> defamed the Thai monarchy.
> 
> A police source said the Special Branch Bureau also had several papers
> written by Mr Sulak and cassette tapes of his speeches which allegedly
> insulted the monarchy.
> 
> Police chief Pracha Promnok is expected to sign an arrest warrant for Mr
> Sulak within the next two days. Special Branch police will be filing
> criminal charges against him.
> 
> The social critic has returned to Thailand from a trip to Japan and is
> scheduled to appear at a seminar in a Buddhist temple this weekend as a
> guest speaker.
> 
> This is the third time Mr Sulak had faced accusations of lese majeste.
> 
> The first was in 1984 but the trial ended after the King intervened. The
> same charge was brought against him by General Suchinda Kraprayoon, a
> former prime minister who ordered the troops to shoot at pro-democracy
> protesters during May 1992. In 1995, Mr Sulak was acquitted by the court
> on that charge.
> 
> In 1995,Mr Sulak was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for upholding the
> universality of fundamental human rights.