<p>Police arrested a flip-flop vendor at the red shirt rally at Ratchaprasong intersection, and confiscated about 100 pairs of flip-flops bearing the PM’s face.</p>
<p>Wasu Suriyakansai, 59, was beaten unconscious by soldiers during the military crackdown on the red shirts on the afternoon of 10 April at Ratchadamnoen Rd. He regained consciousness three days later in hospital. The People’s Information Centre (PIC) visited him and his wife at their home in Klong Luang district, Pathum Thani.</p>
<p>A Bangkok Democrat MP has urged police to press charges against Thaksin Shinawatra for hiring Robert Amsterdam to publish the ‘White Paper’, which he says is offensive to the monarchy and the courts. </p>
<p>Aung San Suu Kyi’s public address at the NLD Headquarters on 14 November 2010. (unofficial translation)</p>
<p>MAE SOT, Thailand – At least a thousand Burmese are trapped in no man’s land on the border with Thailand as fighting between the Burmese army and a faction of a Karen armed group, which began soon after the November 7 general elections, entered its first week.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/1940">Suwicha Thakor</a> and <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/1931">Bunyuen Prasertying</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The case of a <a href="http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/2080">homeless scavenger</a> has been dismissed by the court after over 5 months’ detention in prison.</p>