Supreme Court rejects Yingluck’s request to leave kingdom again
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The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Office Wednesday turned down request by former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to leave the kingdom to visit Japan.
Yingluck sent her lawyer to seek permission from the court to take her son to visit Japan on an education field trip in the later part of this month.
The court decided that Yingluck did not have any emergency cause for leaving the country.
Yingluck is facing a trial of alleged negligence of duty related to the rice-pledging scheme.
Earlier this month, she asked the court for permission to leave the country to visit the European Parliament to exchange opinion on Thailand’s situation as invited by some European parliamentarians but the court rejected her request.
