Hackers bring down Thai websites over British murders verdict


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  • Thursday, 14 Jan 2016

epa05081144 A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against a Thai court's death sentence for two Myanmar migrant workers, in front of Thailand's Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar, 26 December 2015. Hundreds of protesters gathered in Yangon to express their anger at the death sentences handed down to two Myanmar citizens for the murder of two British tourists in southern Thailand. Illegal migrant workers Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo were found guilty 24 December of the rape and murder of Hannah Witheridge and the murder of David Miller on the island resort of Koh Tao in September 2014, in a case where the evidence presented and investigation have been widely questioned. EPA/NYEIN CHAN NAING

BANGKOK: International hacking movement Anonymous said it attacked hundreds of Thai government websites on Jan 13 over death sentences handed down to two migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists. 

A court sentenced Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, both 22, to death on Dec 24 after finding them guilty of murdering tourists Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in 2014. 

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