Supinya Klangnarong

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Supinya Klangnarong is a Thai journalist and media rights advocate. She is the secretary-general of the Campaign for Popular Media Reform.

On July 16, 2003, the Thai Post, a Thai-language daily newspaper, published comments from Supinya who said that Shin Corporation, then majority owned by the family of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had benefited because of favorable policies by the Thaksin government.

Shin Corp. filed a criminal libel lawsuit over the article, naming Supinya and the paper as co-defendants. A civil suit filed by Shin sought 400 million baht in compensation.

After the Thaksin family sold its shares in Shin Corp to Singapore's Temasek Holdings, the company offered to drop the lawsuit on the condition that Supinya apologize for her comments. Supinya refused the offer.

On March 14, 2006, the Criminal Court threw out the criminal lawsuit, saying the article in the Thai Post was presented in good faith and in the public's best interest. On May 8, 2006, Shin Corp. asked that the civil lawsuit be withdrawn. Neither Supinya nor Thai Post had any objections, so the court withdrew the civil suit.