Five Years after Deadly Blasts in Southern Thailand, Few Suspects Appear in Court

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Rescue workers assist a person who was injured when a bomb exploded at a market in Trang province, Thailand, Aug. 11, 2016. BenarNews

 

Mariyam Ahmad
Pattani, Thailand

 

Five years after bombings killed four people and injured more than 30 in Phuket and other tourist hotspots in southern Thailand, authorities have arrested only three of 11 suspects from the insurgency-stricken Deep South in connection with the attacks, sources told BenarNews.

 

A lawyer representing the suspects said one of the three men arrested had served his sentence, another was acquitted in May and a third is scheduled to return to court in September.

 

“The trials were not really slow until the spread of COVID-19 caused postponements beginning last year,” Sitthipong Chantawiroj, a lawyer with the Muslim Attorney Center Foundation, told BenarNews on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/bomb-anniversary-08112021170310.html

 

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[khunPer]

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Muhammad Muhi, a native of Pattani, confessed to planting two bombs in Phuket and has completed his sentence, the lawyer said.

I would have thought that planting two terror-bombs would be a longer sentence...????

[nahkit]

1 hour ago, khunPer said:

I would have thought that planting two terror-bombs would be a longer sentence...????

The two men charged with the Erawan Shrine bombing have already spent 6 years in jail and they haven't actually been found guilty yet.

[johng]

1 minute ago, nahkit said:

The two men charged with the Erawan Shrine bombing have already spent 6 years in jail and they haven't actually been found guilty yet.

Last I heard they where still searching for court translators after the one  being used was also arrested !!!