Former MP Sira sentenced to eight months on defamation charges

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Former Bangkok MP Sira Jenjaka was sentenced to eight months in prison yesterday (Tuesday) by the Criminal Court, after he was found guilty of defaming Pol Gen Sereepisuth Temeeyaves, a former national police chief and leader of the Thai Liberal party.

 

Sira accused Sereepisuth of building a private pier in the Chao Phraya River, in violation of the law.  He also led a group of reporters to Sereepisuth’s riverside property to see the pier, which he suggested was encroaching on the river.

 

The former police chief’s rebuttal was that he had received a permission to build the pier from the Marine Department and that the public prosecutor had already dropped the encroachment charges against him.

 

Caption: Sira Jenjaka

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/former-mp-sira-sentenced-to-eight-months-on-defamation-charges/

 

-- Thai PBS 2023-09-13

 

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