After three years, the examination-of-evidence phase in the trial of 97 People’s Alliance for Democracy members for their 2008 seizure of Bangkok’s airports finally ended Monday, but the next step won’t be taken for eight months. The Criminal Court set Oct 20 for the hearing of a first batch of prosecution witnesses. Read more: Bangkok […]
Thirteen former leaders of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) face bankruptcy after the Appeals Court ordered them to pay around 600 million baht in compensation to Airports of Thailand for the damage they caused in 2008, according to former activist Maleerat Kaewka. Mrs Maleerat, 61, an activist during the Oct 14, 1973 student uprising, […]
BANGKOK — Politicians from Thailand’s two rival political camps have been asked by the military junta to attend a forum on its national reform efforts this Friday. Officials say the politicians were invited by the junta’s reform-promoting agency, the Center for Reconciliation and Reform (CRR), which has organized several forums in the past for prominent […]
Six yellow shirt leaders who included Sonthi Limthongkul were today sentenced to two years in prison for their parts in leading protesters to lay siege to Government House for more than three months during the anti-government protest in 2008. Sonthi, leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), and five others who included Chamlong Srimuang, […]
The Supreme Court has handed down jail terms totalling three years and four months on a yellow-shirt protester who ran a pickup truck over policemen during a crackdown in 2008. But since he has been detained two years and five months, he has served more than two thirds of the time and is now eligible […]
Maj Gen Chamlong Srimuang, Sonthi Limthongkul and eight other leading members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) were on Tuesday indicted by the prosecution in the Dusit District Court for staging a rally in 2011 over the Preah Vihear temple dispute with Cambodia in violation of the Internal Security Act. The eight others indicted […]
BANGKOK — Thailand’s national anti-corruption agency says it will prosecute former Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and his deputies for authorizing a crackdown on Yellowshirt protesters in October 2008. On 7 October 2008 the Redshirt-backed government ordered police to clear Yellowshirt protesters who were blocking the entrance to Parliament and calling on Somchai to resign. Read […]
The Criminal Court has postponed until July 20 the examination of evidence in the case against 96 People’s Alliance for Democracy members indicted on various charges related to the seizure of Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports in 2008. Read more: Bangkok Post
