Curtailing Free Expression, Opinion and Information Online in Southeast Asia Network, who had shared information on Facebook relating to the cases; and other separate cases against Nan Win, other migrant workers and Sutharee Wannasiri.164 Case of Angkhana Neelapaijit In November 2019, Angkhana Neelapaijit, former National Human Rights Commissioner of Thailand and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2019, was served with a court warrant following the filing of a defamation suit against her by Thammakaset Co. Ltd. under sections 326 and 328 of the Criminal Code. The suit alleged harm from two posts she had made on Twitter, where she had shared links to press statements by civil society referring to the case of Sutharee Wannasiri, Nan Win and other migrant workers. The first Twitter post in question was a re-Tweet by Angkhana Neelapaijit in December 2018 to the ICJ website which had a link to a joint statement co-signed by the ICJ and 15 other organizations, calling on Thammakaset Co. Ltd. to cease legal harassment of individuals for bringing to light labour violations. The second Twitter post in June 2019 had shared a link to a news release by the NGO Fortify Rights. Both posts had allegedly contained a link to the film by Fortify Rights which had been the subject of the suits against Sutharee Wannasiri, Nan Win and others. Thammakaset Co. Ltd. argued that her Twitter posts had, in ‘sharing’ weblinks to statements which contained weblinks to the film, violated criminal defamation laws. In February 2020, a “conciliation conference” is expected to be held in this case against the former National Human Rights Commissioner.165 164 Information from ICJ partners. See also FIDH, OMCT, ‘Thailand: FACT SHEET Thammakaset vs. human rights defenders and workers in Thailand’, May 2019, Available at: https://www.fidh.org/ IMG/pdf/obsthailande2019web.pdf 165 ICJ, ‘Thailand: ICJ condemns the use of criminal defamation law to harass Angkhana Neelapaijit’, 27 November 2019, Available at: https://www.icj.org/thailand-icj-condemns-the-use-of-criminaldefamation-law-to-harass-angkhana-neelapaijit/ 55

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