BANGKOK — The Supreme Court has agreed to release the founder of the “Yellowshirt” political movement from prison on bail today, two weeks after he was convicted of fraud. Sondhi Limthongkul was found guilty of fraud and falsifying loan documents by Thailand’s Court of Appeals on 7 August and sentenced to 42 years behind bars. […]
BANGKOK — Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is looking to file criminal charges against former Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat for the government crackdown on Yellowshirt demonstrators in 2008, the agency’s chairman says. On the morning of 7 October 2008, two people were killed and more than 380 injured after riot police attempted to remove Yellowshirt […]
BANGKOK — The founder of Yellowshirt movement, Sondhi Limthingkul, was convicted of fraud today and will spend a day in the prison where dozens of Redshirt activists are currently being held, an official said. “He will be held at Section One, where Redshirt prisoners are also held,” said Sorasith Chongcharoen, director of Bangkok’s Remand Prison. […]
Thailand’s Court of Appeals sentences Sondhi Limthongkul to 20 years prison for violating Securities & Exchange Act, falsifying documents used as collateral for Bt1 billion loan for media empire. News source: MCOT
BANGKOK, 23 May 2014 (NNT) – The Criminal Court has ordered cancellation of bail granted to three former members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) involved in the seizure of airports in 2008 due to their roles in recent anti-government protests. The Criminal Court today deliberated on the bail revocation request of the Department […]
The leader of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) Sondhi Limthongkul now come out openly to call on all yellow-shirt people to throw full support for protest leader Suthep Thuagsuban so as to achieve the national reform movement. Sondhi’s call was revealed by a PAD spokesperson Panthep Pongpuapand in his Facebook page today. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, Oct 1 – Thailand’s Appeals Court today sentenced political firebrand Sondhi Limthongkul to two years in jail for repeating a lese majeste statement earlier made by a Red Shirt political activist. The court’s verdict overruled an earlier ruling by the kingdom’s Criminal Court which acquitted him of the charge. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, 4 April 2013 (NNT) – Prosecutors have sought to indict 19 additional members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) in the Criminal Court for the seizure of Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports in 2008. The 19 who are expected to be charged with terrorism in connection with the airports’ blockade and illegal assembly […]
