Student activist again refused bail
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STUDENT ACTIVIST Jatupat “Pai Dao Din” Boonpattararaksa – who was charged last month with violating the lese majeste law and Computer Crime Act for sharing the BBC Thai article about the monarchy – was again refused bail yesterday, his lawyer Krisadang Nucharat said.
Jatupat’s legal team planned to appeal the bail request on Monday, Krisadang said.
“We proposed that Jatupat would have to sit for an examination at his university,” Krisadang said. “It would also be ok for us if the court would like to raise the bail value.”
The lawyers Friday submitted a new Bt500,000 bail amount for Jatupat, in another attempt to get him out of a month-long detention for his final exam.
Wiboon Boonpattararaksa, Jatupat’s father, said the latest bail request came with new conditions and Jatupat was prepared to accept any additional conditions that may be imposed that would permit him to be released from jail to sit his final exam.
