The special investigation agency has decided against filing a lese majeste charge against a red-shirt core leader and Pheu Thai MP, given his rally speech was not violation of the law. Director General of the Department of Special Investigation Tharit Pengdit said the evidence his agency has collected suggested the rally speech by Pheu Thai […]
BANGKOK, April 20 – The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), the so-called Red Shirt movement, will rally May 19 at Ratchaprasong intersection in downtown Bangkok to mark the second anniversary of the May 19 protest clampdown in 2010 and to commemorate those killed during the political demonstration. UDD spokesman Worawut Vichaidit announced on […]
BANGKOK, April 12 – A key leader of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), Thailand’s Red Shirt movement, said Thursday that more than 4,000 Cambodian police will be deployed to ensure the safety of Thailand’s ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra who will visit the country this week. UDD key leader Jatuporn Prompan, also a […]
BANGKOK, April 11 – The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), Thailand’s so-called Red Shirt movement, on Wednesday assembled near the Democracy Monument on Rajdamnoen Avenue to mark the 2nd anniversary of their deadly protests against the then Abhisit Vejjajiva administration. UDD leader Thida Thavornseth, together with other protest leaders Natthawut Saikua, Jatuporn Prompan, […]
Thousands of red shirts will celebrate Songkran with former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in Laos and Cambodia, Pheu Thai MP Jatuporn Promphan said yesterday. “Thaksin is not coming back to Thailand at this time but will stay close in order to allay the feelings of those who miss him,” he said. Read more: The Nation
SURIN: Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra told his supporters yesterday that he would personally pay for detained red shirts to be bailed out, and said he would soon make an “elegant” return to Thailand. Thaksin, who fled the country in 2008 after being convicted by the Supreme Court for abuse of power – and who […]
BANGKOK, March 19 – The government will begin compensation payments late next month for political victims or families of those who lost their lives in political violence between 2005 and 2010, Prime Minister’s Office Permanent Secretary Thongthong Chantarangsu said here on Monday. Mr Thongthong, in his capacity as head of the sub-panel responsible for considering […]
The Court of Appeals on Thursday found eight red-shirt leaders guilty for torching a Bangkok Bank branch in Khon Kaen in connection with the political disturbances in 2010. The high court sentenced the eight to serve a jail term ranging from half a year to one year and six months and imposed a fine of […]
