"royal pardon"

Wealthy prominent prisoners hoping for early release were left disappointed on Friday when the latest list of royal pardons was published.

A senator on Wednesday voiced his opposition to a Justice Ministry proposal to reduce the minimum jail term before a convict can become eligible for a royal pardon.

The Royal Gazette has announced that 30,000 prison inmates will be freed after being granted a Royal pardon to mark King Bhumibol’s birthday anniversary on December 5.

Fifty-nine Myanmar inmates were released from Ranong Prison on Tuesday after being granted a royal pardon on the occasion of Coronation Day.

A KALASIN couple jailed since 2017 for forest encroachment left prison one year early yesterday as beneficiaries of a royal pardon.

Five jailed leaders of the yellow-shirt movement were released from prison on Friday under a royal pardon granted to qualified prisoners nationwide on the occasion of the Royal Coronation of HM King Rama X.

A royal decree to grant royal pardons for inmates to mark the royal coronation took effect on Saturday, Corrections Department director general Narat Sawetanan said.

OUTSPOKEN former MP Chuwit Kamolvisit will probably be among the first batch of 30,000 inmates released under an amnesty granted to mark His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s accession to the throne, according to Corrections Department director-general Kobkiat Kasiwiwat.

HIS MAJESTY King Maha Vajiralongkorn has granted amnesty to a number of inmates on the occasion of his accession to the Throne, according to the Royal Gazette yesterday.

Election-fraud convict Chonsawat Asavahame has been released after serving a year in prison, Wasant Singkaselit, deputy director-general of the Corrections Department, said yesterday.

CONVICTED rapists, robbers and abusers of authority are among the inmates not eligible for royal pardons on two important occasions.