Four former yellow-shirt leaders acquitted of sedition charges

Yellow Shirt (PAD) protesters during the seizure of Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi Airports in 2008.
Yellow Shirt (PAD) protesters during the seizure of Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi Airports in 2008. Photo: Wikipedia.

The Supreme Court today acquitted four leaders of the now-defunct People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), known as the Yellow Shirts, of sedition charges in connection [Read More…]

Court postpones ruling on PAD core members regarding airport seizures in 2008

Yellow Shirt (PAD) protesters at Suvarnabhumi Airport in 2008
Yellow Shirt protesters closed Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi Airport in 2008. Photo: Wikipedia.

A Criminal Court has postponed its ruling on former key members of the now-defunct People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), who are accused of laying siege [Read More…]

TV anchor, 3 ex-‘Yellow Shirt’ leaders face one year in prison over 2008 protests

PAD Anti-Thaksin protesters walk on Bangkok street wearing yellow t-shirts
PAD Royalist protesters walk on Bangkok street wearing yellow t-shirts. Photo: Underexpose. GNU FDL.

Thai TV news anchor Anchalee Paireerak and three former leaders of the now defunct People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), better known as the “Yellow Shirt”, [Read More…]

Ex-city police chief acquitted for his role in violent breakup of PAD protest in 2008

The Government House of Thailand seized by PAD members
The Government House in Bangkok during the siege by Yellow Shirts anti-government demonstrators in August 2008. Photo: Craig Martell.

Former metropolitan police commissioner Pol Lt-Gen Suchart Muenkaew who ordered the use of tear gas to break up protesters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy [Read More…]

PAD petition Supreme Court to oppose withdrawing the case against its leaders from the court

Thailand News Breaking News
Thailand News Breaking News. Image: TN.

The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) today (Wednesday) petitioned the Supreme Court president and the panel of judges of the Supreme Court’s criminal division for [Read More…]