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The Criminal Court on Thursday acquitted four key members of the now-defunct People’s Democratic Reform Committee on insurrection charges.

Six young Thais accused of setting portraits of some Royal Family members on fire have been granted rare acquittals, their lawyer said yesterday, escaping strict royal defamation charges that can carry 15 years in jail.

LOEI PROVINCIAL Court has dismissed the case against seven female activists who are being sued for their campaign against a gold mine operator’s effort to renew land usage permission on forestland.

There is no need to reinvestigate cases related to the 2010 crackdown against red-shirt protestors, which resulted in 99 people being killed, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan said on Tuesday.

THE SOUTHERN Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday acquitted key Pheu Thai Party politician Watana Muangsook, who had been accused of violating the Computer Crime Act for allegedly disseminating false information about the junta and Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha.