<p>Sarinee Achavanuntakul, writer, translator, and independent researcher, has been summonsed by the Election Cases Division of the Supreme Court after she was accused of contempt of court for the publication of an article in the Krungthep Turakit newspaper, says <a href="https://www.tlhr2014.com/?p=13553&amp;fbclid=IwAR1Yvwn4-EUpC_ECXlLd1iB751iRYYgkDjA37cu5cSNdJwkixCUY013CuW4">TLHR</a>.</p>

<p>46 civil society organisations have called for the release of the wife of a disappeared community rights activist imprisoned for land encroachment.</p> <p>On 3 November 2017, representatives of 46 civil society organisations submitted a petition to Cheep Chulamon, the president of the Supreme Court, calling for the release of Suphab Khamlae, 67, a villager of Khok Yao village in Chaiyaphum Province.</p> <p>The Supreme Court in July confirmed the lower court’s verdict to sentence Suphab and her husband, Den Khamlae, to six months imprisonment for encroaching into a protected area.</p>

<div>On 21 September 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that 13 leaders of People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), also known as the yellowshirts, must pay 522 million baht for leading crowds to occupy two Bangkok airports in 2008, <a href="http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2017/09/22/yellowshirt-leaders-fined-522m-seizing-airports/">reported Khaosod English</a>.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Upholding the decision of the lower court, the court added 7.5 percent annual interest to what the 13 owe Airports of Thailand since Dec. </div>

<p dir="ltr">“Today, the struggle is not over yet. This mother will struggle until the end...I believe that the perpetrators will not get away,” said Payao Akhad, mother of Kamolkate Akhad, a medic who was killed during the 2010 crackdown on red-shirt protesters. &nbsp;She spoke while lighting incense for her late daughter at Ratchaprasong intersection in central Bangkok on 31 August 2017.</p> <p></p>

<p>A key leader of the anti-establishment red shirts has vowed to bring justice to the victims of the 2010 crackdown after&nbsp;<a href="https://prachatai.org/english/node/7351">the country’s top court dismissed murder charges</a> against former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Suthep Thaugsuban, his former deputy.</p>

<p>The Thai Supreme Court’s dismissal of criminal charges against a former prime minister and his deputy for their role in the deadly crackdown on “Red Shirt” protesters in May 2010 is a serious setback for justice in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hrw.org/asia/thailand">Thailand</a>, Human Rights Watch said today. International human rights law makes clear that official status cannot justify immunity from criminal responsibility for serious human rights violations.</p>

<p>Family members of the victims of the 2010 crackdown on red-shirt protesters have denounced the&nbsp;<a href="https://prachatai.org/english/node/7351">Supreme Court verdict</a>&nbsp;to dismiss murder charges against former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Suthep Thaugsuban, his former deputy.</p>

<p>The Supreme Court has acquitted Abhisit and Suthep of murder charges for authorising the violent military crackdown on anti-establishment red-shirt protesters in April and May 2010. Meanwhile, a former government investigator who dared to accuse the two of murder is now facing lawsuits. &nbsp;</p> <p>On 31 August 2017, the Supreme Court confirmed a previous ruling by the Court of Appeal and dismissed murder charges against former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, and Suthep Thaugsuban, his former deputy.</p>

<p>The Supreme Court has handed a two month suspended jail term to a prominent red-shirt activist.</p> <p>On 9 August 2017, the Dusit District Court in Bangkok read the Supreme Court’s verdict for Sombat Boonngamanong, leader of the Red Sunday red-shirt group, who was accused of failing to report to the junta.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The Supreme Court has accepted a lawsuit against a former government investigator who dared to accuse Abhisit and Suthep of murder for ordering the bloody military crackdown on anti-establishment red-shirt protesters in 2010.</p>