News
11 Nov 2010
Three red shirts detained under the Emergency Decree have been temporarily released by the courts on bail provided by the Ministry of Justice, while two other red shirts have been denied bail, despite the Ministry’s assurances to their families.
10 Nov 2010
The mother of a paramedic killed at Pathum Wanaram Temple on 19 May has urged the Department of Special Investigation to reveal the results of autopsies carried out on those who were killed and protested against the indefinite postponement in announcing the results by the DSI Director-General.
10 Nov 2010
Warawut Thanangkorn, known as Suchart Nakbangsai in cyber political forums, who was arrested for lèse majesté on 1 Nov, told Prachachat Thurakij newspaper that he would not fight his case in court, and expected to do time in jail and then seek leniency for an early release as in the cases of Suwicha Thakor and Bunyuen Prasertying.
6 Nov 2010
Akekasit Man-ngam, 19, was arrested under the Emergency Decree on the night of 14 May, when he was helping a red shirt direct traffic near Din Daeng intersection. He is now serving a one-year jail term.
3 Nov 2010
The court has approved arrest warrants for two women who were caught in photographs writing offensive messages during a red-shirt rally at the Democracy Monument on 10 Oct.
1 Nov 2010
Nurawati was the last wife of Jaebahem Tuilo, 47, a kamnan or headman in Thung Pho Subdistrict, Saba Yoi District, Songkhla. Her husband was gunned down at the market in the district town on 13 Aug 2010. He had two wives and 4 children with the first wife and a two-and-a-half-year-old girl with her. He also had 8 other children from his previous two marriages which had ended in divorce.
31 Oct 2010
The case of a homeless scavenger has been dismissed by the court after over 5 months’ detention in prison.
31 Oct 2010
The court has acquitted a Chulalongkorn lecturer who tore up his ballot papers in the 2006 elections. It says that the elections were illegal, so the ballot papers were not considered real ballot papers, and were worth little money.
31 Oct 2010
Sondhi Limthongkul has hit out hard at Abhisit Vejjajiva ahead of the People’s Alliance for Democracy’s move against Parliament’s approval of documents related to the Thai-Cambodian border dispute on 2 Nov.
30 Oct 2010
The Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation says it will deal with unregistered community radio stations, some of which are divisive and offensive.
29 Oct 2010
The Foreign Ministry has revoked the passports of 9 leaders of the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship at the request of the police.
25 Oct 2010
Masali Jaeleemae, an imam in Tanoputae village in Bannang Sata District in Yala, was killed in front of his house on 20 Dec 2007. His wife and 7 children have never received any compensation
Sadinah told Prachatai that on that day her husband was coming back from evening prayer at the mosque. She heard the sound of his motorcycle from in front of the house, and told one of their children to open the door for him as she had always taught them to do for their father.
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