Court accepts Rosana's libel case against Jatuporn
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The Court of Appeals yesterday accepted a libel suit filed by Senator Rosana Tositrakul against red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan over claims that she used her influence to have the Department of Special Investigation take over the airport-seizure case.
Rosana is appealing against an August 8 Criminal Court verdict saying that there was no ground for her defamation suit against Jatuporn.
In the suit, she accuses Jatuporn of violating Articles 326 and 328 of the Criminal Code when he told the press that she used connections to get the DSI to take over the probe into the 2008 airport seizure by the yellow-shirt People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD).
Rosana said Jatuporn’s claim misled the public into thinking she was allied with PAD because she was a friend of the group’s core leader Pipop Thongchai.
Rosana said though she knows Pipop through her work with the Komol Kheethong Foundation and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and had been to the PAD rally at Government House, she did not belong to the group. The Court of Appeals has set November 12 for the first hearing.
