Interview with ex Pm shuts radio stations

News from Thailand where three radio stations have been closed down for carrying an interview with deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.The same man who is currently in the process of buying Premier League club Man City.


This from Reporters sans Frontiere

This was the first time Thaksin has
given an interview
to Thai radio stations since his ouster in a military
coup on 19 September 2006.
He spoke with Confidante from London, where he is
living in exile. In the
interview, which was also broadcast by Saturday
Voice Against Dictatorship and
Taxi Driver Community Radio, Thaksin urged
his voters to hold on, and said it
would not be in the country’s interest
for the presidential election to be
postponed.
Shortly after the
interview was broadcast, Confidante received a
visit by a delegation from
the military government, which confiscated the
recording of the interview
and closed the station down. Legal proceedings were
initiated today against
Confidante and Taxi Driver Community Radio while the
server of Saturday
Voice Against Dictatorship, which is only available on the
Internet, was
blocked.