I thought this was very cool. Darunee (Da Torpedo) is a female political activist convicted of lese majeste and now serving a lenghty sentence in prison. Well, you can now send her a royal postcard with a message of 140 characters. Guess Twitter influence is growing. Go ahead give it a try, as noted on Freedom Against Censorship in Thailand.
The royal link is Here. Go to the bottom left of the page, pick a heart image, then post a short message of love and support. Here's the message from FACT:
Princess Bajrakitiyabha, daughter of the crown prince, is director of the Kamlangjai (Inspire) Foundation, a project to reach out to Thailand’s women prisoners, helping their return to society, medical and childcare during their incarceration.
The princess in her role as a Thai public prosecutor is regularly confronted by the reality of women prisoners.
Princess Bajrakitiyabha received an award of recognition from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for her Enhancing Lives of Female Inmates (ELFI) Project. ELFI proposes new rules on prison reform and the humane the treatment of women prisoners as well as non-custodial measures for women offenders. The ELFI proposals are intended to supplement the 1955 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (of which UNODC is the custodian).
The princess was also a participant in writing the UN’s Kyiv Declaration on Women’s Health in Prison.
The Asian Human Rights Commission has recently asked Princess Bajrakitiyabha, to review the harsh treatment of lèse majesté prisoner Darunee Charnchoensilpakul in gaol. Princess Bajrakitiyabha helps women prisoners to receive proper medical care; it only follows that the princess must seek full medical treatment for Darunee’s jaw cancer simply out of human decency and metta.
On Kamlangjai’s main page on left bottom is a box for “Kamlangjai e-cards” in which one can send messages to women prisoners. Choose a picture and then enter text.
We know Da would enjoy receiving a card from you via the princess!
Thai: http://www.kamlangjai.or.th/eng/index.php
English: http://www.kamlangjai.or.th/eng/index.php
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