Bail hopes rise for Kalasin woman jailed for 15 years for picking mushrooms

[noitom]

Preposterous that the Thais have held this poor woman in prison at all let alone 15 years for poaching a few mushrooms in a forest reserve. The Thais are laughable as the Thai politicians have plundered Thai resources for years on a major scale. Timber, elephant ivory for example.

And never is a Thai Mr. Big hauled off to trial and prison.

[Sing_Sling]

Good thing those protestors in BangKok are fighting for an end to corruption!!

If they win travesties of justice like this will never happen again.

I hope you're being facetious . . . if not:

As for:

Lawyer Songkran Atchariyasap, chairman of the Network Against Acts that Destroy Kingdom, Religion and Monarchy

. . . this simply sounds far too much like 1984

[catweazle]

15 years for picking mushrooms, but 3 years and 8 months for a child rapist that strangled and raped a girl to leave her half dead and to - after his release - rape ten more children and kill 4 of them? What f#$&%d up justice system is this? How many years will Nui get this time? 4.5? Or perhaps they will just set him free and blame it all on a messed up and difficult childhood...

Edited December 23, 2013 by catweazle

[redutedog1]

at the right time we picked them daily with many many others thai's

I guess it is one way to get back at the country folk

people are starting to get unhappy upcountry

soon they will stop sending rice sugar ect for processing

Starve the city LOL

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[tragickingdom]

They should execute the judge, the policemen who submitted the case and the prosecutor for such gross misuse of power. Yes Suthep is right, there should be change, starting with the sacking of all his friends at the courts who leave police murderers with money (red Bull) massmurderers like Suthep and Abhisit out on bail and lock up the poor.

[lostinsurin]

Would everybody please send a copy of this to newspapers in your home country.

This is despicable.

[shrimpythailand]

a 500 bt fine would have been sufficient to give this poor couple for picking a few mushrooms in a national park here.... talk about a travesty of justice... 15 year sentence ... come on Thailand court/judicial system...someone needs to pardon this couple...whoa...

[Sunisalom]

Every now and then on tv you see a short piece on the news about judges being sworn in to do their duty for the king and country. It is hard to believe that anyone handing down a sentence of 15 years for picking mushrooms in a national park is doing it out of a sense of justice being served. Sent from my GT-I9003 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Yourself and Soi41 picked up on exactly what I was thinking.

What kind of judge can sit at his bench and seriously read out, "I am sentencing you to fifteen years imprison for picking mushrooms" ??

It's, ludicrously, nearing on insanity.

The judge has not been particularly brought into view here, and that leaves a few unearthed questions. People are blathering on about the Thai law and its inequalities and craziness, and yet we don't know what the law states in-depth about either picking mushrooms or logging. The law may well be crazy, but it seems more apparent that this judge was not completely with it on that day of sentencing, or he's as bent as a five bob note and impacted with large sentences for a reason. This judge needs to be publicised, and questioned by the media in front of audiences - to back with his reasons for such sentences for such a pittance of a crime.

-mel.

[RachaRob]

Were they MAGIC mushrooms?

[bigbamboo]

That child-molester got only three years when he was convicted before.

These two got 15 years for picking mushrooms.

The drunk-driving-killing Red Bull kid after a year still hasn't appeared in court but is partying abroad.

The missunderstood fugitive gets a free diplomatic passport instead of an interpol arrest warrant.

What do these lines have in common? Thai injustice.

No wonder no one here takes the courts seriously.

In Thailand the judges don't need to wear silly wigs to behave like clowns.

[Loles]

What's wrong with Thai judgement?

idiot rich girl has killed 8-10 people in highway with out license and got almost nothing

poor silly fake DVD vendor woman got 3 years

red bull party gay has killed a policeman, dragged him 80 meters under his Ferrari and won't get anything

this poor silly woman GOT 15 YEARS in jail cause mushroom picking

Anyway we have to say don't try to show that there is equality under law in TH.

[Loles]

Must be missing something in the report. This is too unbelievable to be true.

not missing anything at all.

this is TH.

if you are poor you get a high austerity,

but

if you are reach, Chinese, politician or police you can do anything without any true retortion. That's all nothing else.

[MJP]

What's wrong with Thai judgement?

idiot rich girl has killed 8-10 people in highway with out license and got almost nothing

poor silly fake DVD vendor woman got 3 years

red bull party gay has killed a policeman, dragged him 80 meters under his Ferrari and won't get anything

this poor silly woman GOT 15 YEARS in jail cause mushroom picking

Anyway we have to say don't try to show that there is equality under law in TH.

And this . . .

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Moo-Ham-gets-suspended-jail-term-30201337.html

This really isn't a country I particularly like and that's not because of the regular poor folk.

[Ulic]

Sounds like the old take on pornography, "I can't define it but I sure know it when I see it"

Picking mushrooms is "logging" walking through the forest reserve is "encroachment"

What about all those, resorts built in National Parks. Not sure about the point someone is

trying to make as it is lost in translation. Hopefully sanity will prevail.

[mrtoad]

I am absolutely gobsmacked by this, it is frankly ridiculous. People can steal billions of baht and get nothing, others kill and just skip bail and then this. What a joke.

[Tokay]

For a minute I thought I was reading American news.

[1ma]

Thai Democracy: Some people are more equal than others.

[1ma]

I suspect there is more to the background of these people in terms of them failing to play ball with someone powerful at some stage.

[papa al]

Reminds me of the Illinois, USA guy who was sentenced to 75 tears for videotaping the police when they pulled him over on a traffic stop.

[sonar6ca]

T.I.T At its best, worthy of a Nobel Price for stupidity.

[SOTIRIOS]

...amidst the rampant deforestation....land encroachment...and animal poaching....this is disgusting to hear....

(...maybe because they might bear witness to all the abovementioned REAL crimes that go unchecked....)

[Sing_Sling]

Must be missing something in the report. This is too unbelievable to be true.

not missing anything at all.

this is TH.

if you are poor you get a high austerity,

but

if you are reach, Chinese, politician or police you can do anything without any true retortion. That's all nothing else.

Chinese? You do realise that the vast majority of Thais are ethnic Chinese . . .

'Chinese' . . .

[paz]

I have noticed how in Thai news the judges names is never published at least in the english news as well the one of the prosecutors or even lawyers. Compare to another country that i have experience with (not naming which not a 1st world and not asian) of troubled justice and much corruption where at least is given to know who does what and judges are called to answer their action. Far from perfect but at least it makes look like they are trying. Here nothing, all is opaque and fighting against injustice appears to be unpopular.

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[BeforeTigers]

Industrialist criminals walk.
But people that go out into nature to forage for food, hard time.

Reminds me of that cat a couple of years back that was hawking a couple of DVDs that he found along his garbage recycling route. Yolked with a fine that would take his life's labor to pay off. Meanwhile, anyone can walk into any one of the major shopping malls and order up absolutely any pirated software to be professionally installed on our shiny new computers for a small fee with total impunity.

This whole "civilization" thing we all do really doesn't stand up to scrutiny, does it?

Edited December 23, 2013 by BeforeTigers

[BeforeTigers]

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Edited December 23, 2013 by BeforeTigers