Peace TV’s broadcast still protected by administrative court’s injunction
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The red-shirt Peace TV station can continue its broadcast under an injunction of the administrative court because the latest order of the broadcast/telecom watchdog cannot overrule the court’s order, the Supreme Administrative Court has ruled.
On Monday, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission decided to suspend Peace TV license for one month, starting on July 10. The NBTC alleged that Peace TV’s three TV programmes in March violated the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)’s announcements No 97 and 103.
But on Wednesday, Weng Tojirakarn, a red-shirt leader filed a complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court in his capacity as a programme host of the TV station.
Weng alleged that the NBTC’s order violated the injunction of Central Administrative Court dated May 26 that allows the station to go on air until the court makes a ruling in case the station filed against the NBTC’s earlier order to revoke its license.
Following three hours of deliberation, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the NBTC’s new order could not supercede the injunction order, Weng told reporters after the hearing.
He said the Supreme Administrative Court decided that if the NBTC thought the TV station violated any condition in the injunction, it must ask the Central Administrative Court to revoke the injunction instead of issuing its own order to overrule the court’s order.
