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Andrew MacGregor Marshall
Scottish journalist and author
Andrew MacGregor Marshall (born 25 March ) is a Scottish journalist and author, focusing mainly on human rights, conflict, politics, and crime, mostly in Asia and the Middle East.
A noted critic of the Thai monarchy and government, in June , Marshall resigned from Reuters in controversial circumstances after the news agency refused to publish exclusive stories he was writing on the Thai monarchy. His book A Kingdom in Crisis[1] was banned in Thailand [2] and a prominent Thai royalist made a formal complaint to police accusing Marshall of several crimes including lèse majesté.[3]
Career
Marshall was a correspondent for Reuters for 17 years, covering political upheaval in Thailand and the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
In , he was named Reuters' Deputy Bureau Chief in Bangkok. He was Reuters' Baghdad bureau chief from to as a violent insurgency gripped Iraq, and was Reut