The red-shirt movement will gear for expanding mass supports in order to sway the outcome of the upcoming elections, red leader Natthawut Saikua said on Tuesday. “The red shirts will set up their network designed for the elections,” he said, hinting at building up the mass movement to support the Pheu Thai Party. Natthawut said […]
BANGKOK, 3 March 2011 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has assigned security units to closely monitor the mass gathering of the anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) on 12 March. Prime Minister Abhisit advised the UDD against surrounding the Parliament building while the no-confidence debate is taking place. He stressed that the […]
BANGKOK, 2 March 2011 (NNT) – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has voiced its concerns over a new wave of violence in the kingdom after seven core leaders of the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) have been granted temporary release. NHRC Chairperson Prof Dr Amara Pongsapich has also warned those UDD key […]
Although the government is confident that its move to grant bail to seven red-shirt leaders will alleviate the political tension, merchants fear that it will bring about additional unrest. Merchants around the Ratchaprasong and the Victory Monument areas in Bangkok expressed their opposition to the court’s decision to grant bail to the seven leaders of […]
BANGKOK, Feb 27 — Seven key leaders of the anti-government movement of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) released last week on Sunday demanded the release on bail of their colleagues who now remain in jail in the Thai capital and upcountry following a security operation that ended their mass protests about 10 […]
New Report Absolves Thai Military of Blame The army is breathing a sigh of relief after a Department of Special Investigation (DSI) report concluded troops were not responsible for the death of a Japanese cameraman during last year’s red shirt protests. However, the relief may be short-lived, amid claims that the army chief of staff […]
A red-shirt leader says he will ask his fellow men who have fled arrest warrants for their roles in last year’s political unrest to turn themselves in after eight of the group’s key elements were released on bail. The freed defendants will also deliver their speeches at the group’s rally next month. Red-shirt leader Jatuporn […]
BANGKOK, Feb 22 – Thailand’s Criminal Court on Tuesday granted the temporary release of seven detained Red Shirt leaders after their bail requests were earlier rejected several times since being detained last May on terrorism charges, but banned them from leaving the country or inciting their supporters to stir unrest. The protest leaders have been […]
