Court to consider Yoswarit plea
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The Criminal Court will consider a request to temporarily release red-shirt co-leader Yoswarit "Jeng Dokjik" Chooklom on bail.
Yoswarit’s bail was revoked on August 23 after the court found him guilty of threatening Constitution Court justices and their families by revealing their personal phone numbers at a red-shirt rally.
Yoswarit, along with other red-shirt leaders, faces a “terrorism” charge in connection with the April-May 2010 unrest.
The request came with Bt600,000 to be posted as bail and two letters guaranteeing Toswarit’s conduct from Justice Minister Pracha Promnork and former deputy interior minister Sermpong Pongpanich, Yoswarit’s attorney Winyat Chartmontri said.
The Department of Special Investigation raised no objection to the bail request.
Yoswarit is detained at Bangkok Remand Prison.
Another red-shirt co-leader, Jatuporn Promphan, told the Criminal Court in a libel suit filed against him by Abhisit Vejjajiva that he had no intention of defaming Abhisit.
He said he merely cited the fact that he believes Abhisit was not inside the car that was attacked apparently by red shirts on May 10, 2009, and that his hands were soiled with blood.
Jatuporn told the court that the emergency decree should not have been used against the red-shirt movement as it was meant to be used in the three southernmost provinces only.
