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BANGKOK (Reuters) – A former Thai magazine editor was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday for insulting the royal family under the country's draconian lese-majeste law, a sentence that drew condemnation from international rights groups and the European Union. Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was found guilty of publishing articles defaming King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2010 when he [...]
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Thai magazine’s former editor gets 10 years for insulting king
Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2013
Posted in Breaking News 
Tags: Editor, Former, Gets, Insulting, King, magazines, Thai, Years 
No Comments »Saudi website editor could face death for apostasy-rights group
Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2012
RIYADH (Reuters) – The editor of a Saudi Arabian website could be sentenced to death after a judge cited him for apostasy and moved his case to a higher court, the monitoring group Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. Raif Badawi, who started the Free Saudi Liberals website to discuss the role of religion in [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: apostasyrights, Could, Death, Editor, face, Group, Saudi, Website No Comments »Furious Bleacher Report Editor Will Make Staff Rank Things All Fucking Night If He Has To
Posted by admin on December 10th, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO—Frustrated with the poor quality of lists the website’s writers have produced as of late, BleacherReport.com editor Eric Briggs threatened Monday to force the staff to rank things “all fucking night” if he had to. Tweet This Post
Letters To The Editor: The Fuller Family
Posted by admin on December 8th, 2012
Dear The Onion, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Fuller family! There’s no picture this year because Mary got her face burnt off in a freak oven explosion. Love, Ed, Mary, Jed, Todd, and Sparky Fuller, Saranac, NY Tweet This Post
Letters To The Editor: Help The Hungry
Posted by admin on December 5th, 2012
Dear The Onion, My girlfriend and I can’t find a decent place to eat in our neighborhood. Help! Please publish a restaurant review soon, as we are both very hungry. Tony Fechtor, Chicago Tweet This Post
Detained Italy editor “escapes” to push for press freedom
Posted by admin on December 1st, 2012
ROME (Reuters) – The editor of an Italian newspaper was re-arrested on Saturday, police said, after he intentionally violated the terms of his house detention to draw attention to the issue of press freedom. Alessandro Sallusti, editor-in-chief of Il Giornale, a newspaper owned by the family of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was sentenced to [...]
Letters To The Editor: Longtime Reader
Posted by admin on November 24th, 2012
Dear The Onion, As a longtime reader of letters to the editor, I decided it was finally time to put my money where my mouth is and write one of my own. So how’d I do? Nicole Patterson, York, PA Tweet This Post
Letters To The Editor: Underrated Actors
Posted by admin on November 21st, 2012
Dear The Onion, You know who’s an underrated actor? I’m making a list, but I don’t have any names yet. Dietrich Brandt, Eugene, OR Tweet This Post
Letters To The Editor: Shame On You
Posted by admin on November 7th, 2012
Dear The Onion, Your paper sets an unattainable standard of proper spelling and grammar that today’s youths will never be able to live up to. I bet you’re even going to correct the misspellings in this letter and break it into separate coherent sentences. Shame on you. Patricia Auster, Easley, SC Tweet This Post
Greek editor arrested over list of Swiss accounts
Posted by admin on October 28th, 2012
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police arrested the editor of a weekly magazine for publishing a list of more than 2,000 names of wealthy Greeks who have placed money in Swiss bank accounts, police said on Sunday. The so-called “Lagarde List” – given to Greece by French authorities in 2010 with names to be probed for [...]
