Eight more PAD members indicted
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Public prosecutors Thursday indicted eight more members of the People's Alliance for Democracy on conspiracy charges in connection with the seizures of two Bangkok airports in 2008.
All eight defendants were released on bail.
The accused were Saken Suthiwong, a singer; Lakhana Dissayasarin, an international school director; Chaiporn Kerdmongkol, a singer known as Jum Dankwian; Suthi Achasai, an NGO coordinator; Gen Panthep Puwanartnurak, a former deputy permanent secretary of the Defence Ministry; Somchai Wongwet; Kusuma Plaengsorn; and Somsak Issamanyee, deputy leader of the New Politics Party.
They are charged with assembling with more than 10 people to instigate unrest, teaming up to take over and hide in the premises of others, using force and conspiring with more than two people to violate orders issued under the security law.
The Nation
