Politics

BANGKOK — A court today sentenced five leaders of the Redshirt movement to prison for a protest they organized in front of the home of a chief royal adviser eight years ago.

BANGKOK — Turkish officials have refuted claims from Thai police that the two nations were cooperating in the investigation of last month’s bomb attack in Bangkok.

BANGKOK — Three of the ruling junta’s most vocal critics were released this afternoon from military custody.

BANGKOK — Thai police have ruled that the bomb attack that killed 20 people in Bangkok last month was an act of revenge against the military government’s deportation of Muslim Uighurs to China.

BANGKOK — A former Pheu Thai MP is accusing the military junta of trying to silence his criticism by dispatching an army thug to assault him at a football field – a charge denied by the military.

BANGKOK — A journalist from a prominent English-language newspaper in Thailand became the third person to be held incommunicado by the military this month, as the ruling junta escalates its recent clampdown on dissent.

BANGKOK — Junta chairman and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha today vowed to escalate the suppression of his military regime’s critics and asked the media not to give them a platform.

BANGKOK — The ruling military junta said today former minister Pichai Naripatapan’s latest detention in an army camp – said to be his seventh since the coup – will only end when it deems him to be “cooperative.”

BANGKOK — An actress and avid supporter of the Yellowshirt movement filed a criminal complaint today against a Redshirt supporter, alleging he fabricated inflammatory quotes disparaging "low class" Redshirts in her name.

BANGKOK — When the military government invoked a special power to strip former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of his police rank recently, it said it was done to ease His Majesty the King’s “burden.”