Eight Chiang Mai politicians will be detained for seven days and then be charged in the military court with sedition and spreading false information on the draft charter through letters, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said on Thursday. The week-long detention period was ordered by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). Full story: […]
Former Pheu Thai party spokesman Prompong Nopparit and former Udon Thani MP Kiat-udom Menasawat serving 12 months in prison for libel charge were freed today, two months ahead of their 12-month prison term. They were released from Bangkok Remand Prison prior to their imprisonment term because of good behaviour while imprisoned. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
Pheu Thai party’s core member Watana Muangsook has insisted that the military has no right to detain him for his free expressions but has vowed to turn himself in to the military on Monday. In the latest message posted in his Facebook page today (Sunday), the defiant former Pheu Thai MP has dismissed the allegation […]
Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra told former Pheu Thai MPs to visit people in their constituencies and to try to tend to their problems, especially drought which has affected farmland and caused widespread hardship to rural inhabitants. Through Skyping, Thaksin joined key members of the party, including former prime ministers Yingluck Shinawatra and Somchai […]
Former Pheu Thai party spokesman Prompong Nopparit and former Pheu Thai MP Kiat-udom Manasawat are to be released from prison two months ahead of their jailterm due to their good conduct. Mr Kobkiat Kasiwiwat, deputy permanent secretary for justice, said Thursday that the two former Pheu Thai MPs were sentenced to one year each without […]
PHEU THAI PARTY yesterday called for the quick release of former MP Worachai Hema, who was summoned by military officers on Saturday evening, following his comments that were allegedly critical of the junta leader. On Thursday, Worachai called for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the leader of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), to […]
The Pheu Thai Party wrote to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday to complain about the detention of one of its key figures, Watana Muangsook, and accused the government of serious rights violations. Acting Pheu Thai leader Viroj Pao-In wrote to commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein to draw his attention to […]
Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, along with his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, also an ex-premier, are exploiting the foreign media to ratchet up global pressure on the military government, a Pheu Thai source says. The Pheu Thai Party also plans to turn Ms Yingluck into a democracy heroine, likening her to Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San […]
