Lack of Interpreter Stalls Uyghur Suspects’ Trial in 2015 Bangkok Bombing

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Adem Karadag (in handcuffs), one of two Uyghur suspects arrested in connection with the bombing of the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok in August 2015, arrives at a military court in the Thai capital, Feb. 16, 2016. 

Nontarat Phaicharoen/BenarNews

 

Nontarat Phaicharoen
Bangkok

 

Two Uyghur men facing charges in a bombing that killed 20 people and injured more than 100 at a Hindu shrine in Bangkok are waiting for a courtroom interpreter from China to arrive next month before their trial can resume, two people involved in the case told BenarNews.

 

Adem Karadag (alias Bilal Mohammed), then 31, and Yusufu Mieraili, then 28, were arrested within two weeks after the three kg. of explosives stuffed into a pipe ripped through the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok on Aug. 17, 2015.

 

Since then, however, the legal proceedings against them have been delayed or set back multiple times. Their trial in a criminal court has yet to begin in earnest although they have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

 

Full story: https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/no-interpreter-08172021161730.html

 

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[Scrotobike]

Because the CCP has them all in concentration camps (oops sorry re-education camps)

[ChipButty]

How are they allowed to keep them so long? 

[anchadian]

15 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

How are they allowed to keep them so long? 

And one of the two maybe innocent

[ChipButty]

35 minutes ago, anchadian said:

And one of the two maybe innocent

Maybe both

[chuang]

For six years cant find a interpreter,,,LOL ..555

[Emdog]

5 hours ago, Scrotobike said:

Because the CCP has them all in concentration camps (oops sorry re-education camps)

Maybe Thailand screwed up when they sent that plane load of them back to CCP not to long before the bombing. Should have kept a couple for a rainy day.

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Maybe both

Like the two Burmese lads????

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

How are they allowed to keep them so long? 

thainess.

[H1w4yR1da]

On 8/18/2021 at 7:40 AM, Scrotobike said:

Because the CCP has them all in concentration camps (oops sorry re-education camps)

After the havoc they've caused, I can see why.

[johng]

The last interpreter used in this case was also arrested..which may partly explain why no one else is forthcoming.

[ChipButty]

6 minutes ago, johng said:

The last interpreter used in this case was also arrested..which may partly explain why no one else is forthcoming.

One interpreter, an Uzbek, was later jailed for alleged possession of drugs in Bangkok. He claimed he had been framed for helping the two Uyghur men, and had been beaten by police. Three others did not work out because they did not have good command of Uyghur to be accurate for trial.

[ChipButty]

“To have a Chinese-picked translator is not fair. He or she may not be impartial because China is not an ally of the duo,” Tajaroensuk told BenarNews. “He or she may translate in favor of China.”

[pegman]

So much for a fair and speedy trial.