Pitak Siam files complaints over invocation of ISA
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Pitak Siam leader Gen Boonlert Kaewprasit on Friday filed complaints with the Ombudsmen Office and the National Anti-Corruption Commission against the government and police chief.
The general alleged that they had unconstitutionally blocking his group’s rally. In this complaint, Boonlert said that the government unconstitutionally enforced the International Security Act in the heart of Bangkok to prevent people from joining his rally on November 24.
Boonlert submitted his complaint to Ombudsman Sriracha Charoenphanit, urging him to pass on the complaint to the Constitution Court to rule on whether the government had breached the Constitution.
Boonlert said the Constitution guaranteed the people’s rights to demonstrate peacefully.
Boonlert said the ISA was also used to allow police to fire teargases as demonstrators and harming them.
“Before holding the rally, the Pitak Siam sent a letter to the prime minister, the Interior Ministry, and the police commissioner-general, seeking permission to demonstrate at the Royal Plaza. Initially, the government was not opposed to the rally but it enforced the ISA on November 22,” Boonlert said.
