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Palang Pracharath Party member sues Thanathorn, others over rally

By THE NATION

 

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Sonthiya Sawasdee, a member of Palang Pracharath Party filed a lawsuit at Pathumwan Police Station today (December 16) against Future Forward Party (FWP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and three others (FWP secretary Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, FWP spokesperson Pannika Wanich, and FWP party listed MP Pita Limjaroenrat) for posting on facebook an invitation to Saturday's rally on the skywalk of the Pathumwan intersection on Rama I Road in Bangkok.

 

Sonthiya claimed that Thanathorn and his alleged accomplices violated 3 laws: 1) Organising a rally without notifying authorities, blocking public entrance-exit, and in less than 150 metres from royal residence (Sa Pathum Palace); 2) Violation of Criminal Law article 116, causing public disobedience to the law; and 3) Violation of royal institution according to Article 6 of Thai Constitution.

 

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“I am on board with political rally as long it doesn’t cause problems to the public,” said Sonthiya “I want to use this case as a standard for political parties to follow and to remind supporters joining the rally that they still have to follow the law.”

 

Sonthiya also added that ‘suing the rally organisers’ is what he has done for decades based on personal belief that all political rally must be lawful, and that his filing of the case today was not done on behalf of Palang Pracharath Party.

 

Related Story: [Gallery] FWP rally is underway at Pathumwan skywalk

Related Story: Thanathorn sets the stage for 'real rally against dictatorship'

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30379493

 

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-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-12-16
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11 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

They use this system of sueing very effectively to destroy any form of intellectual,academic,political or individual freedom in Thailand and they have been doing it for a very long time.

 

The population is effectively reduced to a mass of nodding donkeys due to the very grave risk of financial ruin.

 

If you effectively control the courts as well as the Praetorian guard then you have

an almost unassailable stranglehold on the country.

I agree in the past it has been effective but I think that it might just well have the opposite effect and going against the complainants and might well be part of Thanathorn's strategy to expose their reliance on a corrupted legal system.   

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4 hours ago, Yinn said:

He the one who want the US ambassador go to jail...

 

https://prachatai.com/english/node/5667

He seems to reported Thanatorn for le majeste now too.

 

Also the police are blantanly lying and charging Thanatorn for resistence against police and they are claiming protesters and police clashed during the protest. 

 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2019/12/16/thanathorn-accused-of-insulting-monarchy-for-skywalk-rally/

 

 

" A pro-government activist on Monday urged police to prosecute Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit on suspicions that he defamed the monarchy.

For holding a mass anti-government protest on Saturday, Sonthiya Sawasdi from Phalang Pracharath Party accused Thanathorn of breaching Section 6 of the constitution, which states that the monarchy must be revered and cannot be violated. "

 

 

" Thairath newspaper also reported that Pathumwan Police has filed three criminal charges against Thanathorn related to Saturday’s rally. They include organizing a protest without notifying local authorities, using a loudspeaker without permission, and resisting law enforcement officers.

The latter charge was filed in connection with a scuffle between the protesters and police officers at the rally."

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This young man seems to really have the "old guard" rattled and worried. I just hope they don't approach his efforts to improve Thailand too rabidly and become successful in completely destroying his political career. 

 

I laugh when people ask how anyone could live in Vietnam with its Communist gov't, but it seems Thailand has become one of the more oppressive countries in the world under the power of Prayut's strong-arm military gov't.  

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