<p>Yellow-shirt leader Sondhi Limthongkul will stand trial for lèse majesté in Nov 2011.</p>
<p>On 16 Aug, the court examined the evidence in the case of Sondhi Limthongkul who has been prosecuted for lèse majesté for repeating Da Torpedo’s words which sent her to jail for 18 years. </p>
<p>Sondhi denied all charges in court.</p>
<p>The court set 1 Nov 2011as the starting date for the trial.</p>
<p>28 red shirts, including a 15-year-old boy, have been arrested and prosecuted for burning down Mukdahan provincial hall on 19 May. 24 have been denied bail and are being held on remand at the provincial prison.</p>
<p>The People’s Centre for Information on the April – May 2010 Crackdowns (PCI) has reported the arrest and prosecution of 28 people, including one woman and a 15-year-old boy, for burning down the provincial hall during the unrest on 19 May.</p>
<p>The mother of the high school student has been told by the Provincial Juvenile Centre not to send her son for psychotherapy scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday, as her son has been found to be normal. The Director of the Centre insists that the agency has followed procedures without discrimination. The Centre’s findings from its examination of the student will be sent to police to be forwarded to the prosecution.</p>
<p>The trial of the webmaster of the Norporchor USA website has been scheduled to start in February 2011. The Appeals Court has rejected Daranee Charnchoengsilapakul’s bail request for fear that she might flee.</p>
<p>On 9 Aug, a local red-shirt leader and three students from Chiang Rai who had been charged by local police with violating the Emergency Decree went to the Office of the National Human Rights Commission in Bangkok, in response to an invitation to provide information to the Commission.</p>
<p>The Office of the Higher Education Commission has sent a circular to rectors of all universities to keep an eye on students’ stage performances which may contain distorted political content and incite unrest and divisiveness in society.</p>
<p>Sakon Nakhon court has sentenced Sakrapee Phromchat, who as a Brahman led the red shirts’ blood-pouring ritual in front of Government House in March, to 8 months in jail for blocking traffic and instigating unrest during a protest in the province.</p>
<p>The high school student charged with violating the Emergency Decree has undergone a psychological examination and is scheduled to receive psychotherapy for two days.</p>
<p>On 2 Aug, the 16 year-old Grade 11 student, who joined four college students on 16 July to protest against the decree and the government crackdown on demonstrations at Ratchaprasong, underwent a psychological examination by officials of the Juvenile Observation and Protection Centre.</p>
<p>Activists continue to hold activities to remind the public of the deaths at Ratchaprasong and to resist the Emergency Decree.</p>
<p>On 1 Aug, groups of activists, including Social Move, Red Sunday Poets, and Network of Social Activists for Democracy, held various activities at the 14 Oct Memorial at Khok Wua intersection on Ratchadamnoen Rd.</p>
<p>A high school student, one of five students who have been persecuted for their minor protest against the Emergency Decree in Chiang Rai, reported to the Juvenile Observation and Protection Centre for questioning, and has been advised to confess to the crime and ask the court for leniency.</p>
By The People’s Center for Information on the April – May 2010 Crackdowns (PCI) |
<p>The People’s Center for Information on the April – May 2010 Crackdowns (PCI), launched on 19 July by a group of academics and activists called Santiprachadharma, has released information on the arrests and detentions of red shirts in Ubon Ratchathani, Khon Kaen, Mukdahan, Udon Thani, and Maha Sarakham. [1]</p>
<p>5 students in Chiang Rai have been persecuted by the authorities after they staged a small protest calling for the lifting of the Emergency Decree and reminding the public of the killings in Ratchaprasong. </p>