CRISPIN AND TASKER TALK TO JOURNALISTS IN BANGKOK, 2002-02-27 (photo)

American journalist Shawn Crispin (L), 33, and British colleague Rodney Tasker, 56, talk to reporters after they met with immigration police in Bangkok February 27, 2002. Bangkok residents Tasker and Crispin, who work for the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review magazine have had their passports withheld pending an appeal against their expulsion from Thailand after being labelled by Thai authorities as a threat to national security. The controversy follows articles the magazine published in January on the Thai Royal Family, as well as on businesses run by the family of the Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang JIR/CP