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Wed, 02/19/2014 - 16:56
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Courts approve arrest warrants against five protest leaders, rule to revoke CMPO's orders

BANGKOK, February 19 (TNA) - Bangkok's Criminal Court has approved arrest warrants against five more core leaders of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) for blocking advance voting on January 22, as requested by police. The Criminal Court said that its Wednesday's approval was based on grounded evidence. The Department of Special Investigation (DSI), in the meantime, also requested the Criminal Court to approve arrest warrants against 13 more PDRC leaders, with the court set to decide on the case on February 24. DSI interrogators presented video clips to the court to support their request for the arrest warrants against the additional 13 PDRC leaders. Police of the Bang Khen station in Bangkok on Tuesday night arrested Thinakorn Onprathum, a provincial councilor of Roi Et in the Thai Northeast and a PDRC leader, who broke into the Royal Forestry Department recently. Police questioned and charged the man and later released him on bail on the condition that he must not lead any demonstration again or leave the country. Meanwhile, Bangkok's Civil Court ruled on Wednesday afternoon that the executive decree, imposed by the caretaker government for 60 days in all areas in Bangkok and some areas in peripheral provinces since January 22, be maintained, but orders, issued by the caretaker government-run Center for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO), be lifted. Earlier, a PDRC leader, Thaworn Senneam, asked the Civil Court to stop the caretaker government's enforcement of the executive decree.(TNA)

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