Hot on the heels of the removal of the editor of the Bangkok Post, the editor of a popular Thai-language weekly has gone public with a claim that he was forced to resign for trying to publish a story critical of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a press report said yesterday.
Rungruang Preechakul, 48, former editor of the long-established Siamrath Weekly News magazine, told The Nation newspaper his publication had been subjected to censorship on "every page" since the beginning of this month.
Bangkok Post editor Veera Prateepchaikul was removed last Friday in a move denounced by several local and international media watchdogs as a troubling sign that Thailand's free press was at risk.
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