BANGKOK: Two Thai television channels affiliated to the opposition Red Shirt movement will be taken off air for seven days for “violating” junta orders, an official said, in the latest strike against freedom of expression in the military-ruled kingdom.
The country’s sharply polarised political channels were one of the first casualties of the censorship imposed following the declaration of martial law and the coup last May. But a ban on them was lifted around three months later on the condition they stayed clear of politics.