24 Feb, 2011
(MCOT online news)
BANGKOK, Feb 24 -- Thailand's yellow-clad movement, the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on Thursday filed charges against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, his cabinet and the national chief of police for what they accused of unlawful re-enforcement of Internal Security Act (ISA), while seeking court order to revoke the security law measures.
PAD key leader Prapan Koonmee and spokesman Panthep Puapongpan filed charges against the premier, his cabinet and national police chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree, in his capacity as director of the Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) for invoking the ISA which the movement claimed slandered the PAD and the Thailand Patriots Network who gathered on a mission to protect the country.
The PAD complaint's today claimed the ISA announcement and regulations are unlawful and is seeking the court injunction to annul the law enforcement, as well as calling for an emergency hearing on the case in order to protect the people's rights and freedom.
The court accepted the PAD complaint for consideration and set to hear the petition on Feb 28, while calling the premier and the national police chief to testify the following day.
The PAD have staged rallies outside Government House since Jan 25, demanding the withdrawal of Thailand from the World Heritage Committee, the revocation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Cambodia in 2000 and the pushing of Cambodian people living in the disputed border areas back to their homeland.
The Cabinet decided to re-impose the ISA from Feb 9-23 in seven districts around Government House to provide the legal framework for containing intensifying protests and later extended the law enforcement until March 25.
So far ten protest leaders have been summoned for violating the ISA as they defied CAPO orders.
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