CNN visas revoked, charges filed
published : 10 Oct 2022 at 09:31
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassana Nanuam and Online Reporters
The Immigration Bureau has withdrawn visas issued for two CNN reporters after they entered the childcare centre where a mass shooting took place to report on the story.
The Immigration Bureau said on Sunday the visas for the two crew members had been revoked.
They entered Thailand on tourist visas which did not allow them to work in the country, the bureau said.
The officer referred to reporter Anna Coren, 47, an Australian citizen, and cameraman Daniel Hodge, 34, a British national.
Ms Coren and Mr Hodge were assigned to cover the massacre at the daycare centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu on Thursday. They trespassed the crime scene and reported from inside the building, where 24 children had been murdered. The picture of the two climbing over the fence from the centre went public on Saturday.
CNN later on Sunday said it had removed the report from its website and issued a statement claiming the two had permission to enter the centre.
CNN learned later that the officials who gave them the access had no authority.
Police would charge the two with trespassing and other possible charges.
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Vocabulary
- access: the ability or opportunity to enter a building or place - สิทธิ์เข้าสู่ โอกาสในการเข้าสู่
- authority: the power to make decisions or tell people what to do - อำนาจ, อำนาจในการสั่งการ
- charge: to accuse someone officially of committing a crime - ตั้งข้อกล่าวหา
- charge : an official statement accusing someone of committing a crime - ข้อกล่าวหา
- citizen: someone who has the right to live permanently in a particular country - พลเมือง
- fence: a structure made of wood or wire supported with posts that is put between two areas of land as a boundary, or around a garden/yard, field, etc. to keep animals in, or to keep people and animals out - รั้ว
- file charges: to accuse someone officially of committing a crime - ตั้งข้อกล่าวหา, ฟ้อง
- Immigration Bureau: the government agency dealing with people entering and leaving the country and those who want to live there - สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง
- massacre: the action of killing a lot of people - การสังหารหมู่
- national: a citizen of a particular country - ประชาชน
- permission: allowing someone to do something - การอนุญาต,การอนุมัติ,การยินยอม
- revoke: to officially say that something is no longer legal - เพิกถอน
- trespass: to go onto someone's land or enter their building without permission - บุกรุก,รุกล้ำ
- trespassing: going onto someone's land or enter their building without permission - การบุกรุก,การรุกล้ำ
