Jonathan Head

He reported on the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand, and returned to South East Asia in 2006 to report from a range of countries including Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and East Timor.

[3][4] In 2009, he became BBC Turkey Correspondent, based in Istanbul, and in 2011 reported from Libya during the country’s uprising, including the siege of Sirte.

[7] In February 2017, a Thai lawyer, Pratuan Thanarak, brought charges of defamation and violating the country's Computer Crimes Act against Head, following his September 2016 investigative report of a fraud perpetrated on two Europeans who had invested in properties on Phuket island.

[8][9] Authorities seized Head's passport and imposed other bail terms, with the case expected to last two years.

[10] Reporters Without Borders also slammed the defamation laws and the Computer Crimes Act, saying that "journalists covering trials in Thailand often censor themselves out of fear of being accused and possibly going to prison for many years.