Pita among protest leaders given suspended sentences for flash mob protest

[snoop1130]

 

Progressive Movement leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and former Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat are among eight defendants given suspended jail terms by the Pathumwan District Court this morning, after they were found guilty of staging a flash mob protest close to a palace without prior permission back in 2019.

 

The other six defendants were Nuttaa Mahattana, Parit Chiwarak, Thanawat Wongchai, Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, Pannika Wanich and Pairatthachote Chantharakachorn.

 

All eight defendants were charged with multiple offences by public prosecutors, ranging from staging a protest without prior permission at the Pathumwan skywalk (within 150m of a palace), disrupting the operations and services of the BTS train system, creating inconvenience for others using the skywalk and using loud speakers without permission. The protest occurred on December 14th, 2019.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-05

 

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[JoePai]

using loud speakers without permission

 

Better tell the general populous about this criminal act - might save my hearing from time to time

[zzaa09]

The revolution is near......or certainly should be. In a perfect world. 

Haven't the people had enough of these shenanigans? 

 

 

Where are all the strong and influential activists at this time? 

[dinsdale]

56 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

The revolution is near......or certainly should be. In a perfect world. 

Haven't the people had enough of these shenanigans? 

 

 

Where are all the strong and influential activists at this time? 

Article 112 took care of a lot of them. The army took care of some others. RIP.

[ikke1959]

A verdict for something 5 years ago. What did the court do all these years?? Justice in Thailand.. A fugitive comes home after 15 years .. should be in prison, but is so called in a hospital and get probably parole after 3 hours in prison, but using loudspeakers or as they throw everything in section  112 and see how big the punishments are. Seriously that section 112 is outdated and too strict. And of course a reason to  blame Pita and Thanathorn, but a convicted from Australia is no problem in the Government. How low can they go........... Justice and democracy in Thailand... 

[Denim]

4 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

The revolution is near......or certainly should be. In a perfect world. 

Haven't the people had enough of these shenanigans? 

 

 

Where are all the strong and influential activists at this time? 

 

What is needed is a catalyst  such as occurred in Tunisia.

 

One apparently  small event can rapidly develop into a people's uprising that sweeps away the old school in short order.

 

The complacency of the old powers and their placed men in the judicial system assume that they will always be able to suppress popular opinion by the tried and tested methods.

 

When the fall inevitability comes it won't  be pretty.

 

[greeneking]

1 hour ago, Denim said:

 

What is needed is a catalyst  such as occurred in Tunisia.

 

One apparently  small event can rapidly develop into a people's uprising that sweeps away the old school in short order.

 

The complacency of the old powers and their placed men in the judicial system assume that they will always be able to suppress popular opinion by the tried and tested methods.

 

When the fall inevitability comes it won't  be pretty.

 

Democracy Monument seems to stand in the way of developments wanted by 'much revered people.'  It's unnoticed  demolition in the middle of the night could cause unrest.

Or the imminent judicial cancellation of the Move Forward Party could do it first.

Or lethargy could continue.

[Purdey]

There are Thai people pointing out that a certain group took Suvanabhumi Airport hostage for a month and were given a slap on the wrist.

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Progressive Movement leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and former Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat are among eight defendants given suspended jail terms by the Pathumwan District Court this morning, after they were found guilty of staging a flash mob protest close to a palace without prior permission back in 2019.

The witch hunt continues..... so sad.

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

The revolution is near......or certainly should be. In a perfect world. 

Haven't the people had enough of these shenanigans? 

 

 

Where are all the strong and influential activists at this time? 

Locked up, on suspended sentences or working.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, greeneking said:

Democracy Monument seems to stand in the way of developments wanted by 'much revered people.'  It's unnoticed  demolition in the middle of the night could cause unrest.

Or the imminent judicial cancellation of the Move Forward Party could do it first.

Or lethargy could continue.

The latter.... is my view

[newbee2022]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

 

Progressive Movement leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and former Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat are among eight defendants given suspended jail terms by the Pathumwan District Court this morning, after they were found guilty of staging a flash mob protest close to a palace without prior permission back in 2019.

 

The other six defendants were Nuttaa Mahattana, Parit Chiwarak, Thanawat Wongchai, Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, Pannika Wanich and Pairatthachote Chantharakachorn.

 

All eight defendants were charged with multiple offences by public prosecutors, ranging from staging a protest without prior permission at the Pathumwan skywalk (within 150m of a palace), disrupting the operations and services of the BTS train system, creating inconvenience for others using the skywalk and using loud speakers without permission. The protest occurred on December 14th, 2019.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-05

 

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What a bunch of criminals!! But guess WHO??😳

[paul1804]

When are the people going to say "enough" these clowns are on a witch hunt and are looking for anything they can to discredit the threat of them getting their snouts voted out of the trough!

For the sake of the entire country the sooner the people demand an end to this shenanigans the better for all of Thailand.

[spidermike007]

His election was a truly great thing for this nation and shows that the people are both sick of being led by highly ignorant dinosaurs, with no interest in progress, and interested in smart, young folks, who are serious, accomplished, capable of change, and interested in insuring that Thailand has a good future. Pita is exactly what this nation needs, at this point in time. Too bad the toxic monsters stopped him in his tracks.

This is a man who interrupted his studies at MIT, during an MBA program at Sloan to rescue his father's rice bran oil business, Agrifood, after this fathers death. He was successful, and is paying down the 100 million baht his father borrowed to start the company. This is a serious man. Very unlike the failures before him. He then went back and finished his MBA, at one of the top business schools on the planet. 

If it hadn't been the shares it would have been something else, they simply wanted him out of the way, he was too clean, too progressive, too forward leaning, too intelligent, and too capable of moving the nation forward away from the morass of corruption and moral rot, so the shares were just an excuse. From what I understand the company was already suspended and he really had no way of getting rid of the shares. This guy's just too smart to have committed a mistake like that. It was all about the status quo, the army maintaining a hand in the pot, and deeply foul and corrupt men in the background pulling strings. This is about money grubbing lowlifes, trying to use their illegitimate positions, to deny the will of the people, steal an election, move the nation backwards, and deny any kind of change or reform. This is a toxic power grab. Those who stole the election, and the foul, corrupt, proxy senators deserve a lifetime of pain and suffering. One can only hope the people will be bold enough to inflict that upon them.
 

Edited February 6 by spidermike007

[bamnutsak]

This conviction means that Pita can NEVER be Prime Minister.