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Thailand court issues arrest warrants for ex-PM Shinawatra, protest leaders

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] A Thai court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for 13 leaders of anti-government protests, including former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The warrants were issued a day after Shinawatra called for the overthrow of the Thai government by United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship protesters, who have since ended their protests. Current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said that the state of emergency he declared on April 11 will remain in force until there is a reasonable level of stability in Bangkok. He had previously lifted the state of emergency in Pattaya, but the protests there resulted in the cancellation of the Association of South-East Asian Nations summit that was scheduled to take place April 10-12. The US State Department has condemned the violence and urged a peaceful resolution to the protests. Shinawatra has been at the center of several controversial events in Thailand since being overthrown in a military coup in 2006. In December, the Constitutional Court of Thailand disbanded the People's Power Party, long associated with Shinawatra, and banned his brother-in-law, Somchai Wongsawat, from politics for five years. In October, Shinawatra was convicted on charges of corruption for the purchase of land from a government-controlled fund, and in July his wife was convicted on charges of tax evasion.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).