Red given suspended jail term for violating emergency rule

Red leader Sombat Boonngarm-anong on Wednesday received a suspended jail term after the Bangkok Kwang Court found him guilty of violaing the emergency rule in connection with the 2010 red rally.

The magistrate court initially sentenced him to serve six months in jail before citing leniency to suspend the Imprisonment. Sombat is still liable to pay a fine of Bt6,000.

Sombat, also editor of Lai Jud magazine, led a rally last May 21 attended by some 1,000 red shirts near their headquarters on Lad Phrao Road to protest in the wake of the May 19 crackdown at Ratchaprasong intersection.

Before trail, he was detained for 14 days under the emergency rule.

The Nation