60 Years of Oppression and Suppression in Thailand - Political ...

Kasit Piromya
A Phua Thai Party MP filed an LM case against Kasit, Minister of Foreign Affairs and PAD supporter,
in June 2010, but no charges brought by the police.
Ampol Tangnopakul
A royalist stalwart – not charged by the police.
A worker arrested on 3 August 2010 for ‘sending SMS
messages considered offensive to the monarchy and PM’. An
elderly man (61), he is now in prison and refused bail. He
denies the charges, saying the SIM-card used by the police to
trace the calls was not his.
Tom Dundee
In prison.
A singer, accused of LM by the royalist-fascist ‘Network of Volunteer Citizens to Protect the Monarch’
after a speech he made at a Red Shirt protest rally in August 2010.
Thanapol Bamrungsri
Case pending.
A Red Shirt businessman (32) arrested on 13 September 2010 for posting comments regarded as
offensive etc., on his own Facebook pages.
Wiset Pichitlamkhen
Out on bail. Case pending.
Arrested in September 2010 on charges of LM by immigration police at Suvarnabhumi Airport while
leaving the country.
Chanin Khlaikhlung
No further information.
A Royal Thai Air Force officer, reported to police on 17 November 2010 by fellow officers for
outspoken comments on his Facebook pages.
2011
Thaksin Shinawatra
Suspended.
In February 2011, the Democrat MP Watchara Petthong filed LM charges against Thaksin Shinawatra,
Robert Amsterdam and Thanapol Eawsakul (as Editor of Same Sky / Fa diew Kan) for publication of the
Thai version of a White Paper prepared by Amsterdam & Preoff on the royalist crackdown and massacre
in Bangkok in April – May 2010.
Robert Amsterdam
Case pending.
February 2011, together with Thaksin Shinawatra (as above).
Case pending.
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