Hej
Inte helt oväntat väljer dom korrumperade och politiskt styrda domstolarna i Thailand att fria ytterligare gula för att ha hindrat medborgare att rösta på valdagen 2014 och tvingat vallokaler att stänga.
Den här gången är det Thawatchai Promchan, 45 år och f.d ledare för People Force and Thai Energy Reform Network, en politisk grupp som anslöt sig till Sutheps People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) som frias för sin ledande roll i detta.
Han anklagades för att ha lett en grupp valmotståndare till att barrikadera en vallokal Wat Sri-Iam in Prawet District i Bangkok den 26 januari, där hindrade man sedan genom hot dom medborgare som kom för att rösta, han åtalades för brott mot "Article 76 of the 2007 Organic Act on Elections and Article 152 of the 2007 Organic Act on the Election Commission" samt brott mot undantagstillståndet.
Han frias på alla punkter av domstolen.
Sedan tidigare har även dom PDRC demonstranter som barrikaderade "Din Daeng District Office" i Bangkok för att hindra att dom valsedlar som förvarades där kunde distrubieras ut till vallokalerna frikänts, trots att deras handlande innebar att 175 vallokaler inte kunde öppna, detta friades man alltså för i domstol juli 2015.
Visst har bananrepubliken Thailand fantastiska domstolar, ett väl fungerande och neutralt rättsväsende?
Court acquits anti-election protester accused of preventing 2014 election
Submitted by editor2 on Fri, 06/11/2015 - 18:10
The court dismissed charges against an anti-election protester alleged for preventing the 2014 advanced election, saying that it was the election officials who cancelled the election.
The Court of Prakanong District, Bangkok, on Thursday, 5 November 2015, dismissed charges against Thawatchai Promchan, 45, an ex-key leader of People Force and Thai Energy Reform Network, a political group, which joined the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), an anti-election protest, to prevent the 2014 advanced voting.
Thawatchai was charged for leading a group of anti-election protesters to barricade the polling station at Wat Sri-Iam in Prawet District of Bangkok during an advanced election on 26 January 2014 and threatening voters not to cast their votes.
The prosecutors indicted him of offenses under Article 76 of the 2007 Organic Act on Elections and Article 152 of the 2007 Organic Act on the Election Commission.
In addition, he was charged for violating the 2005 Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situation, which was at the time declared by the Yingluck government, for calling on others not to cast their votes.
The court ruled that no solid evidence could prove that the suspect took parts in barricading the polling station and that decision to call off the advanced election was the judgement of the election officials.
Earlier in July 2015, the Criminal Court dropped charges against PDRC demonstrators who barred the Din Daeng District Office in northern Bangkok on 2 February 2014 to prevent the distribution of ballot papers to polling stations.
The court ruled that there was no evidence that the PDRC demonstrators used padlocks to barricade the gate of the District Office as indicted.
The Criminal Court also cited an earlier ruling of the Constitutional Court that the PDRC demonstrations at the time of the general election in February were lawful.
On 2 February 2014, 175 polling stations could not open because PDRC protesters prevented the transportation of ballot papers from the Din Daeng District Office.
On 30 September 2015, Khaosod English reported that around 20 anti-establishment red shirts came to the Attorney General’s Office to demand an explanation for the delay in prosecuting 31 leaders and activists of the PDRC, which campaigned against the elected administration of Yingluck Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister, from November 2013 to May 2014.
“We are here to ask, where is that rebel Suthep?” read one placard held by a Redshirt, referring to PDRC leader Suthep Thaugsuban.
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