Red shirts greet activists freed from prison after royal pardon

Leaders of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), or red shirts, Thida Thawonset, Jatuporn Prompan and Weng Tojirakarn led other members to wait for Wiphutalaeng Pattanaphumthai and Payab Pankate outside the prison. Wiphutalaeng was imprisoned for an involvement with a protest at the Si Sao Thewes residence of then-Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda in July 2007.
Payab was guilty of disrupting the Asean Summit in Pattaya in 2009, resulting in a cancellation of the meeting.