Top Court Rules In Favor Of Thaksin's Passport Revocation

[snoop1130]

Top Court Rules In Favor Of Thaksin's Passport Revocation

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

A screencap of Thaksin Shinawatra taken from his Facebook video in July 2016.

 

BANGKOK — The Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday denied an injunction petition against the passport revocation of ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra at the same time that it returned that of a former education minister.

 

The court ruled Tuesday that Thaksin’s claim – who said the foreign ministry, was unfair in revoking his passports – was not sound because he gave an interview in Seoul, South Korea in May 2015 accusing an unnamed privy council member of being involved in the 2014 coup. Also on Tuesday, the court ordered that former education minister Chaturon Chaisang have his passports returned.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2018/05/01/top-court-rules-in-favor-of-thaksins-passport-revocation/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-5-1

[tukkytuktuk]

Even with all his powerful buddies the answer is still, NO.

 

Poor, old, Thaksin, wonder how his Montenegrin language is improving. Best to get a native speaker Thaksin, these tefler's aren't experienced enough. Ha, ha, ha

Edited May 1, 2018 by tukkytuktuk

[ratcatcher]

38 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

he gave an interview in Seoul, South Korea in May 2015 accusing an unnamed privy council member of being involved in the 2014 coup.

That  should require some research.................

[tukkytuktuk]

7 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

That  should require some research.................

Starts with the letter P. The next 3 letters are a famous pop band with the hit songs, man on the moon, losing my religion and everybody hurts.

 

Did you guess right?

 

If so, you recieve this weeks TV star prize. A months supply of Spam.

 

Hooray!

Edited May 1, 2018 by tukkytuktuk

[baboon]

56 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Top Court Rules In Favor Of Thaksin's Passport Revocation

Well there's a bolt out of the blue.

And in other news, Thailand is discovered to be a country in South-East Asia...

Edited May 1, 2018 by baboon

[tukkytuktuk]

16 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

That  should require some research.................

 

[ratcatcher]

23 minutes ago, tukkytuktuk said:

Starts with the letter P. The next 3 letters are a famous pop band with the hit songs, man on the moon, losing my religion and everybody hurts.

 

Did you guess right?

 

If so, you recieve this weeks TV star prize. A months supply of Spam.

 

Hooray!

Party Pooper.

[ratcatcher]

14 minutes ago, tukkytuktuk said:

 

Edited May 1, 2018 by ratcatcher

[webfact]

Administrative Court reinstates Chaturon’s passports, rejects Thaksin’s plea

By THE NATION

 

 

THE SUPREME Administrative Court ruled yesterday that the termination of Pheu Thai Party key member Chaturon Chaisaeng’s passports was illegal.

 

Following a suggestion by police, the Foreign Ministry revoked Chaturon’s three passports, including a diplomatic one, to prevent him from travelling abroad.

 

The court ruled that the order to revoke the passports was against the law since Chaturon was not prohibited from travelling out of the Kingdom.

 

While the prominent politician and former deputy prime minister was prosecuted in a court martial for resisting an order by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to report himself to the junta after the 2014 coup, the court ruled that he was allowed to travel abroad occasionally.

 

With permission of the NCPO, Chaturon can travel abroad and return to the Kingdom at any time within a determined period, the court said.

 

“It is apparent that [Chaturon] did not have any intention to flee from the country to avoid the prosecution, therefore the ministry and concerned officials have no legitimacy to revoke the passports,” the court ruled.

 

The court agreed with Chaturon that the termination of his passport was politically motivated, since the former minister had criticised the junta-sponsored draft of constitution.

 

There was no solid reason to support the order to revoke the passport, therefore its termination was illegal, the court said.

 

Chaturon yesterday said his case should be a lesson for the authorities when it came to the abuse of power to ban freedom of expression. The order to terminate his passport was a reaction to his criticism of the military-sponsored charter, he said. “I have been bitter about such unjust and unfair treatment over the past three years,” he told reporters after the verdict.

 

Chaturon sued the Foreign Ministry, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai, the Consular Department and its director-general, who are responsible for the passport affairs, as well as National Police Chief, who made the recommendation for the revocation.

 

Don said the ministry and he now had to comply with the court ruling and would reissue three passports for Chaturon. “The case is over but it’s up to [Chaturon] what to do next,” Don said when asked what would happen if Chaturon sued the responsible officials for alleged abuse of power.

 

Revocation of politicians’ and activists’ passports was a practice conducted by authorities after the military coup in 2006 to humiliate and obstruct the travel of the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was then ousted by the coup.

 

Thaksin’s passports were revoked every time his opponents were in power, but they were reissued every time his associates came into office.

 

The current junta also revoked Thaksin’s passports in May 2015 after he gave an interview with foreign media criticising the military coup staged by General Prayut Chan-o-cha to purge his sister Yingluck Shinawatra.

Thaksin also asked the administrative court to rule out the termination of his passport.

 

In a separate case, the court yesterday rejected Thaksin’s plea on the grounds that he is already in exile in a foreign country. With or without a Thai passport, Thaksin can travel.

 

Thaksin said yesterday that the court’s verdict was “not beyond my expectation”.

 

“The reason I filed the lawsuit was not because I had difficulty in not holding a Thai passport. Rather I merely wished to see that the Thai justice system had the opportunity to prove itself from the criticism that it had been used as political tool … against specific groups of people,” the ex-PM said in his Twitter posts.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30344410

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-02

 

 

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[Samui Bodoh]

39 minutes ago, webfact said:

The court agreed with Chaturon that the termination of his passport was politically motivated, since the former minister had criticised the junta-sponsored draft of constitution.

Hmm...

 

Are the courts going to apply the same rationale to the cases of 'sedition' and other 'crimes' as they are applied here? I.e. because they are politically-motivated?

 

Or will they continue to find people guilty of something if they do not approve of the Junta?

 

Just askin'...

 

Edited May 1, 2018 by Samui Bodoh
Lack of coffee and general anger

[kannot]

each vote in favour = new Doi suthep lodgings

[tracker1]

Good job boys your accommidation will go ahead my new protester laws will be here soon !

[smutcakes]

Have they also revoked the Red Bull heir passport?

[Anak Nakal]

Thai court confuse. One day white, one day black.

It not make sense.Law should be sense!

[AsiaHand]

4 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Hmm...

 

Are the courts going to apply the same rationale to the cases of 'sedition' and other 'crimes' as they are applied here? I.e. because they are politically-motivated?

 

Or will they continue to find people guilty of something if they do not approve of the Junta?

 

Just askin'...

 

The Government of LOS and the courts seem to make up their own laws as they go along from day to day.

[Eric Loh]

9 minutes ago, AsiaHand said:

The Government of LOS and the courts seem to make up their own laws as they go along from day to day.

The charge was what he said when asked a question in an interview in Seoul. The court ruled that "some elements that may damage the national security, reputation and dignity of Thailand" which was a rather vague charge and interpretations.

[Srikcir]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

With permission of the NCPO, Chaturon can travel abroad and return to the Kingdom at any time within a determined period, the court said.

Clearly the court (sadly) recognizes the absolute authority of the junta in all matters that supersedes any government authority on citizen matters.

It could have said, "With permission of the government (who would be the appropriate authority under the constitution, albeit under Prayut), Chaturon can travel ..."

Yet the same court presents itself as an independent or constitutional organization in accordance with the constitution. Instead, the judicial system shows itself to be unapologetically politicalized towards the junta and as such has a perceived conflict of interest (aka bias) in its decisions. It becomes questionable whether in the future when there's an elected government (presuming not a Prayut government) that the courts will continue their loyalty to the military.

[hansnl]

2 hours ago, AsiaHand said:

The Government of LOS and the courts seem to make up their own laws as they go along from day to day.

Really?

You are schooled in Thai law, maybe?

That said, governments are making laws, all over the world, which seems to be what they are paid for.

[JAG]

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

The charge was what he said when asked a question in an interview in Seoul. The court ruled that "some elements that may damage the national security, reputation and dignity of Thailand" which was a rather vague charge and interpretations.

I may have rather missed the point, but what bearing does that have on Thaksin having a passport?

 

Not that it will clip his wings...

[Eric Loh]

31 minutes ago, JAG said:

I may have rather missed the point, but what bearing does that have on Thaksin having a passport?

 

Not that it will clip his wings...

The junta don’t need any reason to clip his wings. For good measure, they also have the retro active laws at their standby. Failing which they can also made up the laws like the charter.