THE COURT of Appeal yesterday sentenced red-shirt leaders to two years and eight months in jail for their involvement in a 2007 incident at the residence of Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda. For four of the defendants, the sentences were reduced from four years and four months, which was handed down by a lower court […]
Military prosecutors on Friday charged 19 leading red-shirt members with defying a ban on political gatherings in organising the launch of a centre to monitor the charter referendum. Prosecuters from the judge advocate general’s office indicted them in the Military Court in Bangkok, as about 50 members of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship […]
The Criminal Court in Bangkok on Thursday acquitted red-shirt supporter Amporn Jaikorn, 56, of involvement in an explosion at an apartment building which killed four people and injured nine others in Nonthaburi province in 2010. The court ruled that the prosecution had presented only two police officers as witnesses. One of them only received reports […]
Two former members of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) were Wednesday sentenced to two years and four months each by the Criminal Court after they were found guilty of trespassing on the compound of the Interior Ministry and of illegal assembly during violent protests against the Abhisit government in 2009. The two […]
BANGKOK — Leaders of the anti-regime Redshirt movement Saturday flatly denied having anything to do with a series of bombs that killed four people and injured 35 in the west and south of Thailand and lashed out at the junta leader for making a “cheap” bid to frame them. A day after authorities including Gen. […]
More than 100 red-shirt supporters gathered in front of the Supreme Court in Chaeng Wattana since 7 am Friday to provide moral support to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Yingluck is due to be present at the court Friday for her first testimony on criminal charge against her regarding rice-pledging scandal. Full story: The Nation […]
Hundreds of red-shirt supporters of all ages flood the 5th floor of department store Imperial World Lat Phrao, where the office of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) and its satellite TV station PEACE TV are located, providing moral support for the closing station. The station has been ordered to be suspended by […]
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has ordered the closure of the red shirt-affiliated Peace TV for 30 days, effective on July 10 for airing content in breach of the broadcasting law and the junta’s orders, an NBTC source says. The decision was made at a meeting of the NBTC’s broadcasting committee on Monday, the […]
