Court to consider arrest warrants for SRT leaders
The Criminal Court will hold a hearing on whether to issue arrest warrants for four leaders of the Students and People's Network for Thailand's Reform (SRT) next Monday.
At the hearing, the court will also listen to their lawyer who is seeking to prevent the issuance of the arrest warrants.
Police are seeking arrest warrants for SRT leaders, which include Nitithorn Lamlua and Uthai Yodmanee, over charges of organising an illegal assembly involving more than 10 people and breaking into a government agency at night.
According to police, they raided the Foreign Ministry and damaged four automatic sliding doors.
Meanwhile, the court issued an arrest warrant for key protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban.
Separately, the Civil Court yesterday refused to issue an injunction ordering protesters occupying the Finance Ministry’s compound since Monday to leave.
The court reasoned that it did not have to issue an injunction as requested by the Finance Ministry because the government had already invoked the Internal Security Act.
