Thailand's navy has accused journalists of defamation after a report alleged it helped human traffickers. By Shaikh Azizur Rahman Al Jazeera January 02, 2014 After the Thai navy sued a news website in Thailand over the publication of a story claiming it helped traffick Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya refugees, its editor says he is prepared to go to jail to defend what he called an attack on media freedom. A Royal Thai Navy (RTN) official accused Alan Morison, the Australian editor of the Phuket-based English-language website Phuketwan and his Thai reporter colleague Chutima Sidasathian of criminal defamation. The lawsuit also alleged the two violated the country's Computer Crimes Act, which bars the circulation of information on the Internet deemed to threaten national security or spread panic. "Chutima and I have been charged under two of the most severe and contentious laws in the country and we face seven years in jail. We run a small webs