DSI mulls postponing charge acknowledgement of protest leaders

BANGKOK, January 25 (TNA) - Investigative officers of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) are considering requests of anti-government protest leaders charged with insurrection and sedition to postpone the acknowledgement of their charges. A total of 57 leaders of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) and the Network of Students and People for Thailand Reform (NSPTR) were summoned by the DSI, for the second time, to acknowledge their charges at the Department of Correction from January 22-24, but none of them appeared at the department during the period. But 53 of them have sent their lawyers to request the DSI to postpone the acknowledgement of their charges, most of them reasoned that they were busy leading the protests. No representatives of the other four protest leaders turned up to seek a delay in acknowledging their charges. The DSI might issue another summon letter to the protest leaders or ask the court to issue arrest warrants against them if it considers their request does not justify their absence. (TNA)