The Provincial Court yesterday sentenced four red shirts to 33 years and four months’ jail each, while eight others were given terms ranging from one to three years for their involvement in the arson of Ubon Ratchathani City Hall during rioting on May 19 last year.

Nine other red shirts were acquitted on grounds the evidence presented was insufficient to convict them.

Some 200 redshirt supporters camped outside the court to hear the verdict and gave moral support to their 21 fellow red shirts on trial.

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