19 UDD leaders to face charges over violating ban on gathering
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NINETEEN United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) leaders were summoned Wednesday to face charges of violating the ban on political gatherings in the wake of the movement’s move to set up centres across the nation to monitor fraud during the
The summons stated that the 19 UDD leaders who attended the inaugural ceremony of the centres on Sunday must report to Pol Captain Thiti Pethapan at the Crime Suppression Division on June 30. They would face charges of violating the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s order No 3/2558 for holding a gathering of more than five people for political purposes.
The move came after NCPO’s legal expert Colonel Burin Thongprapai filed a police complaint seeking to take action against the 19 UDD leaders.
Members of the movement, led by Jatuporn Prompan and 18 other UDD leaders, were stopped from opening one of the anti-fraud centres at the Imperial shopping mall in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao area. Similar centres were to be simultaneously inaugurated in other provinces at 10am and the ceremonies were to be broadcast live on the red-shirt Peace TV channel.
