Thais urged to drop charges against 12 over FB posts


Facebook will likely need 'a few years' to fix the problems uncovered by the revelations on the hijacking of private user data, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview. — AFP Relaxnews

BANGKOK: Human Rights Watch urged Thai authorities to drop legal cases against 12 people arrested over Facebook posts they shared about a British tourist’s complaint that she had been raped on a holiday island.

Police arrested the 12 Thai Facebook users this week for violating a cyber crime law, in connection with their posts about what police have deemed to be an untrue complaint of rape.

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