The Appeals Court yesterday handed down a death sentence to Koseng or Useng Jeloh, a leading member of the separatist movement, Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo), but then reduced it to life on grounds that his testimony was useful to the case.

Koseng was charged with rebellion and illegal assembly of weapons and men for a movement pledged to separate Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat, Satun and Songkhla from Thailand.

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