Anti-government white-mask protesters gathered in many provinces yesterday despite opposition from red-shirt supporters of the government. In Bangkok, about 1,000 people – many wearing white Guy Fawkes masks – gathered at the CentralWorld shopping complex yesterday afternoon. Read more: The Nation
Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra has instructed municipal police to tighten security at government compounds and landmarks in Bangkok, and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she was concerned and had assigned her deputy Chalerm Yoobamrung to take charge. But the National Police chief and national security agencies said the imposition of the Internal Security Act (ISA) […]
Friendly fire killed an Army private during a clash with redshirt protesters in front of the National Memorial during a political violence in April 2010, a Criminal Court inquest concluded on Tuesday. Private Narongrit Sala from the Second Battalion of the Ninth Infantry Division in Kanchanaburi was killed by a high-velocity bullet fired from one […]
Nontawat Numbenchapol’s film about border row and 2011 red-shirt protests deemed ‘threat to national security’ A Thai documentary that examines recent political protests and a border spat with Cambodia has been banned by the country’s government as “a threat to national security and international relations”. Read more: guardian.co.uk
BANGKOK, March 25 – The Bangkok South Criminal Court today acquitted two suspects of charges of arson at the CentralWorld shopping complex during the May 2010 political upheaval in the Thai capital. The two activists, Saichon Paebua and Pinit Channarong, were accused by the attorney general of setting fire to a storeroom inside CentralWorld which […]
BANGKOK, Jan 29 – A group of Red Shirt activists rallied at Government House today, demanding the government’s promulgation of a law to grant amnesty to political prisoners held since the 2006 against the then government of Thaksin Shinawatra. Led by Suda Rangkupan, a lecturer in Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Arts, the group said the […]
BANGKOK, Jan 10 – A lawyer representing the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) led two Red Shirt activists to file petitions at the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) accusing former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Suthep Thaugsuban of attempted murder. UDD lawyer Karom Phonpornklang led UDD members Prompong Plangklang and Chamnan […]
The Criminal Court yesterday heard a witness testify that the gunshot that killed Italian photographer Fabio Polenghi came from where the security forces were deployed during the 2010 political mayhem. Speaking from the witness stand in the inquest into Polenghi’s death, PBS Channel news-crew member Makid Khamnan said he was on assignment to cover the […]
