BANGKOK — Former politician Suthep Thaugsuban filed a legal complaint today that pushed back the trial over his authorisation of the military crackdown on Redshirt protesters in 2010. Former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Mr. Suthep, who was the Deputy Prime Minister at the time, face murder charges for their authorization of the crackdown, in […]
The military has asked a group of red-shirt people to scrap their merit-making ceremony for Thaksin Shinawatra’s birthday at Imperial World Ladprao shopping centre in Bangkok. Read more: Bangkok Post
BANGKOK, July 22 – Thailand’s Criminal Court today sentenced red shirt leaders Jatuporn Prompan and Nattawut Saikuar to two-year jail terms in a case that found them guilty of illegal wire-tapping of phone conversations, but the punishment was suspended for two years. The sentence was made as they had played back a phone conversation of […]
BANGKOK — The leader of a Redshirt security unit has disputed an allegation that he was behind the deadly grenade attack on rival anti-government protesters in Bangkok earlier this year. The police recently arrested four men in the connection with the 23 February attack, in which unknown assailants launched a grenade at the rally site […]
BANGKOK — Thailand’s military regime may close down a special jail for Redshirt protesters who have been charged for their alleged role in Thailand’s 2010 political violence, prison sources say. Twenty-two inmates, 20 men and 2 women, are currently being held at Laksi Temporary Prison in northern Bangkok where they await appeal court trials on […]
BANGKOK, 25 June 2014 (NNT) – The Bangkok Military Court gave the green light to temporarily release two prominent red-shirt supporters on bail under the condition that they must not play an active political role or cause any unrest. Former Thai singer and occasional movie actor Mr. Thanat Thanawatcharanont, who is better known as “Tom […]
Sombat Boonngamanong, a prominent red-shirt figure, on Friday morning said he wants to be part of the reconciliation process, asking his followers to be more subtle when showing their opposition to the junta. About a hundred people visited the red-shirt leader at the Bangkok Remand Prison at 11 am on Friday. When Sombat arrived at […]
Suthep Thaugsuban, former deputy prime minister, appeared at the Criminal Court Monday morning to defend his role in cracking rioters in 2010 which resulted in many redshirt rioters dead and injured. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
