Thai Junta Lifts Ban On Thaksin's Website

Thai junta lifts ban on Thaksin's website

June 8, 2007 : Last updated 04:57 pm (Thai local time)

Thailand's army-backed government announced Friday that it had lifted a ban on deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra's website, saying it no longer posed a security threat.

The junta blocked the Hi-Thaksin website a few days before the country's Constitutional Tribunal disbanded the former prime minister's Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party in a landmark ruling on May 30.

The court also barred Thaksin and 110 senior party leaders from politics for five years due to election law violations, but cleared the Democrat Party, TRT's main political rival, of similar vote fraud charges.

The government also lifted a ban on websites it had deemed anti-junta, but did not specify how many websites were affected by the move.

"Those websites no longer pose a threat," said information ministry spokesman Vissanu Mayoo.

Agence France-Presse

a turning point ??

or , have they realise the futility of their banns ??