Soldiers release some red-shirt leaders

BANGKOK, May 28 (TNA) - The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has released some leaders of the red-shirt United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), aligned with the Pheu Thai Party, after a seven-day detention. The freed red-clad leaders include Kwanchai Sarakham, also known as Kwanchai Praipana, from Udon Thani Province in the Thai Northeast, Nisit Sinthuphrai and former commerce minister Chaiya Sasomsap. Kwanchai, who survived a shooting attack at his own house early this year, showed up in a wheelchair, together with the other two UDD leaders on Wednesday morning and they then left the Royal Thai Army Auditorium in Bangkok's Thewes areas on a guarded military van, after signing their names at its gate. Meanwhile, seven more people, summoned by the coup council's 25th order, turned themselves in, but they were not allowed to get off their vehicles to apparently prevent photographers from capturing their pictures. (TNA)