Thailand indicts former leader Thaksin Shinawatra on royal insult charges

[nobodysfriend]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/29/asia/thailand-indicts-thaksin-shinawatra-lese-majeste-intl-hnk/index.html

 

" “The attorney general has decided to indict Thaksin on all charges,” spokesperson Prayuth Bejraguna, told reporters Wednesday. Thaksin will need to appear before the Office of the Attorney General on June 18, after which he will be taken to court. He could not appear at Wednesday’s hearing due to a Covid-19 infection, the spokesperson said.  "

[nobodysfriend]

..." Thaksin has denied that he remains behind the scenes pulling the strings and insisted he returned to Thailand because he wants to enjoy his retirement and spend time with his family. .."

 

..."He could not appear at Wednesday’s hearing due to a Covid-19 infection,"

 

Back to hospital ?

[Will B Good]

Could be looking at what.....a 12 hour sentence?

[nobodysfriend]

Thaksin was alleged to have defamed the monarchy in comments made during an interview with South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper in 2015, during which he claimed privy councillors supported the 2014 coup that ousted the government of his younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra.

 

[Martin71]

3 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Could be looking at what.....a 12 hour sentence?

 

11 hours suspended due to having wads of cash and powerful friends.. good behaviour...

[John Drake]

22 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

Thaksin will need to appear before the Office of the Attorney General on June 18, after which he will be taken to court. He could not appear at Wednesday’s hearing due to a Covid-19 infection, the spokesperson said.  "

 

Wonder if he will now be diagnosed with Long Covid. Might not appear before a court then for a long, long time.

[nobodysfriend]

Lately , Thaksin was warned to slow down his political activity and to keep his mouth shut .

Today , his indictment ...

[John Drake]

Oh, I do wish we had Prayuth back.

 

*No income taxes on foreign sourced income for expatriates

*No changes to conditions for retirement extensions, which now appears in the works

*Subsidies for electricity bills

*Gave us a fully operational online 90 day notification system that works

*Was able to thread the needle in foreign policy between China and the USA

*No mass shutting down of banking apps on phones

*Control of Covid when it counted most

 

 

 

[connda]

33 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/29/asia/thailand-indicts-thaksin-shinawatra-lese-majeste-intl-hnk/index.html

 

" “The attorney general has decided to indict Thaksin on all charges,” spokesperson Prayuth Bejraguna, told reporters Wednesday. Thaksin will need to appear before the Office of the Attorney General on June 18, after which he will be taken to court. He could not appear at Wednesday’s hearing due to a Covid-19 infection, the spokesperson said.  "

He's got "medical excuses" down to a science for avoiding the justice that commoners would never be able to avoid..  <laughs> 

So if convicted, he'll do a few weeks in another hospital penthouse. 

[nobodysfriend]

2 minutes ago, John Drake said:

Oh, I do wish we had Prayuth back.

 

*No income taxes on foreign sourced income for expatriates

*No changes to conditions for retirement extensions, which now appears in the works

*Subsidies for electricity bills

*Gave us a fully operational online 90 day notification system that works

*Was able to thread the needle in foreign policy between China and the USA

*No mass shutting down of banking apps on phones

*Control of Covid when it counted most

 

 

 

 

Don't forget the weed ...

[John Drake]

Just now, nobodysfriend said:

 

Don't forget the weed ...

 

Not a priority for me but certainly so for some.

 

The big thing is the changes to retirement extensions that was just announced yesterday. We don't know what those are. But I've yet to see a change that made things easier for us. All these people "confused" or "laughing" at my preference for Prayuth should remember that he was a status quo politician. For those of us dealing with immigration, he was a godsend. If getting an extension suddenly becomes much more expensive or impossible (can't get health insurance), how many will still be laughing or confused?

[patman30]

37 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Could be looking at what.....a 12 hour sentence?

and that would be appealed.

[OneMoreFarang]

That sounds good.

 

 

[nobodysfriend]

11 minutes ago, patman30 said:

and that would be appealed.

The young Thai couple that honked at a royal motorcade in BKK are still in jail after 3 month ...

[patman30]

1 minute ago, nobodysfriend said:

The young Thai couple that honked at a royal motorcade in BKK are still in jail after 3 month ...

you just get off the plane?

[nobodysfriend]

Just now, patman30 said:

you just get off the plane?

 

It looks like you did not get the point ...

If Thaksin is not convicted , that would seem like a blatant injustice to the many who are imprisoned for violations of the 112 , and that for less than what Thaksin did ...

[nobodysfriend]

Remember , Thaksin struck a ' secret deal ' that enabled him to come ' home ' ...

With whom , we may only guess ... but , I think part of the deal was that he does not interfere too much into thai politics ...?

Well , he did just that ... a warning was issued , and now the repercussions ...

He may be not as powerful as he thinks ...

Yingluck , better stay wherever you are ...

[nobodysfriend]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn44555ly8lo

 

In what had looked like a grand bargain, his party was allowed to form a coalition government with some of his political opponents, in order to keep out the youthful reformist party Move Forward which had won the most votes and seats in the 2023 election.

But the decision to indict the 74 year-old former premier under the draconian lese majeste law shows that he still has enemies in Thailand’s powerful royalist establishment.

 

Mr. Thaksin’s lawyers say they are confident of defending him in court; but in the typically protracted period before he is likely to go to trial this indictment may force him to limit his political ambitions.

 

He stepped on someone's toes ...

[alanrchase]

18 hours ago, John Drake said:

 

Not a priority for me but certainly so for some.

 

The big thing is the changes to retirement extensions that was just announced yesterday. We don't know what those are. But I've yet to see a change that made things easier for us. All these people "confused" or "laughing" at my preference for Prayuth should remember that he was a status quo politician. For those of us dealing with immigration, he was a godsend. If getting an extension suddenly becomes much more expensive or impossible (can't get health insurance), how many will still be laughing or confused?

What changes to retirement extensions  mentioned yesterday are you on about? The only change I saw mentioned was a reduction of the insurance requirement from 3 million baht to 440,000 baht, which seems to be an improvement if your extension is the type that requires insurance. Have you seen something else?

[jaywalker2]

19 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

..." Thaksin has denied that he remains behind the scenes pulling the strings and insisted he returned to Thailand because he wants to enjoy his retirement and spend time with his family. .."

 

..."He could not appear at Wednesday’s hearing due to a Covid-19 infection,"

 

Back to hospital ?

He's negotiating. That's why Srettha brought that weasal Wissanu on as an advisor.

[john donson]

nice justice system here,  FOR THE RICH

 

mai pen rai, I'm busy...

 

covid, lol... next week party in myanmar?

[Thingamabob]

In a short time since his return from Dubai, to which he ran away to avoid a 2 year jail sentence, he has already managed to make a host of new enemies.

[Wrwest]

This is a great example of the political misuse of that law. Ironically, it is the misuse that, in itself, reflects poorly on the Kingdom of Thailand.

[Srikcir]

"The case, filed by police, alleged Thaksin violated Thailand’s notoriously harsh royal insult law during an interview he gave in 2015 to the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo."

Wouldn't Thaksin's 2023 Royal Pardon be a catch-all for all his alleged crimes through to the date of the Pardon?

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/with-royal-pardon-thai-ex-premiers-8-year-prison-term-reduced-to-1-year/2980936

This new charge by the police on an 8-year old interview might seem in itself an act of lese majeste committed by the police as the police might appear to be disrespectful of the Pardon. Shouldn't the police need a post-2023 crime alleged against Thaksin to overcome the term of his Royal Pardon?

 

 

 

[NoshowJones]

21 hours ago, John Drake said:

Oh, I do wish we had Prayuth back.

 

*No income taxes on foreign sourced income for expatriates

*No changes to conditions for retirement extensions, which now appears in the works

*Subsidies for electricity bills

*Gave us a fully operational online 90 day notification system that works

*Was able to thread the needle in foreign policy between China and the USA

*No mass shutting down of banking apps on phones

*Control of Covid when it counted most

 

 

 

Very strong Baht compared to the GBP. About 50 Bt to GBP in 2014, down to about 40 Bt to GBP between 2014 and the next 9 years. Now up to almost 47 Bt to GBP. The unelected PM and his soldiers at that time were obviously manipulating the Baht when they were in power, probably to be to their own financial advantage.        

[digger70]

Thailand indicts former leader Thaksin Shinawatra on royal insult charges.

. Thaksin will need to appear before the Office of the Attorney General on June 18, after which he will be taken to court. He could not appear at Wednesday’s hearing due to a Covid-19 infection, the spokesperson said.  " 

 

Thailand has some of the world’s strictest royal defamation laws, and criticizing the king, queen, or heir apparent can lead to a maximum 15-year prison sentence for each offense.

Sentences for those convicted under Section 112 of Thailand’s Criminal Code, or lese majeste law, can be decades long, and hundreds of people have been prosecuted in recent years.

 

Here we go again  Just Wondering how long this covid will take to get better.

A long stay in the hospital  seems to be in order . 

Just thinking ,did Thaksin arranged to by his way out of this and Not go to Jail Again.

What a #@*!$ country, 

 

 

[mancub]

1 hour ago, NoshowJones said:

Very strong Baht compared to the GBP. About 50 Bt to GBP in 2014, down to about 40 Bt to GBP between 2014 and the next 9 years. Now up to almost 47 Bt to GBP. The unelected PM and his soldiers at that time were obviously manipulating the Baht when they were in power, probably to be to their own financial advantage.        

Oh...and there was i thinking it had something to do with Brexit !😄

[PETERTHEEATER]

23 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Could be looking at what.....a 12 hour sentence?

Six hours if he confesses.

[jwest10]

Really Covit?

 

[crazykopite]

Is he back in the olive hospital with Covid I would think that as he was on his death bead 2 months ago thisCovid infection could be extremely dangerous