
Some days ago in Thailand, T.S., a 58 year old Thai with the Facebook-Nickname ใหญ่ แดงเดือด Yai Daengdueat (“great angry red”) was sentenced to 50 (fifty!) years in prison (“graciously reduced to 25”) under martial law after a stalinist-like “in-camera” court case, where the public and press were not allowed to observe the proceding. This week, my fellow journalist Nick Nostitz’s