Two years after the 2014 coup d’état, a provincial court in southern Thailand has handed a suspended jail term to a leader of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) over an anti-election protest. Ranong Provincial Court on Wednesday, 27 July 2016, handed a jail term of one year and six months and a 30,000 baht fine to Sucheep Patthong, a leader of the PDRC protest in Ranong.

The Civil and Political Rights Subcommittee of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has concluded that although the 2013-2014 anti-election protests of People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) were overall constitutional, they violated the rights of others.

The Criminal Court has postponed to next year the trial of key members of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), an anti-election election group, charged with sedition and preventing the 2014 election.  

The Criminal Court has dropped charges against anti-election protesters who barricaded a Bangkok District Office in early 2014 to prevent the general election from taking place.   According to T News, at 10:00 am on Thursday, 9 July 2015, Bangkok’s Criminal Court dropped charges against People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) demonstrators who barred the Din Daeng District Office in northern Bangkok, to prevent the distribution of ballot papers polling stations on 2 February 2014.

  The victim of a violent confrontation between the pro-government and anti-government camps in February has died today without receiving justice. Akaew Sae-Liew, a 72-year-old street vendor, was shot on his neck by gunmen, believably to be affiliated with the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), during a confrontation between the red shirts and anti-election PDRC guards at Lak Si Intersection on 1 February. After the incident, Akaew suffered from paralysis for eight months before his death this morning.