Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Sulak Sivaraksa, born 1933, is a prominent and outspoken Thai intellectual and social critic. He is a teacher, a scholar, a publisher, an activist, the founder of many organisations, and the author of more than a hundred books and monographs in both Thai and English. He is among a handful of leaders world-wide working to a revive the socially engaged aspects of spirituality.
It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st...