Convicted EC given special treatment
Three ex-EC commissioners have been granted special treatments in Bangkok Remand Prison as they were allowed to have mobile phone and to have several visits a day.
Prison rules allowed a prisoner to have only a 15-minute visit a day. Visitors and prisoners are placed in a room separated by partition mirror and talk through a telephone. However it is reported that the convicted trio; Vasana Puemlarp, Prinya Nakchudtree and Virachai Naewboonnien, have their own mobile phones. It has been reported that some journalists have conducted telephone interview with Vasana from his jail cell on Thursday. The trio's were allowed to meet their visitors in persons with no partition and several times a day. Their visitors' vehicles were allowed to park inside the prison compound. The same privileges are not granted to other prisoners' guests. Moreover, the trio do not have to have their meals with other prisoners. Prison staffs would set separate meals for them with the food ordered from outside restaurant. News reports about the trio's special treatments have been leaked by prison officials who appeared to be more and more frustrated with the added burden of having to monitor the trio and their activities around the clock. The Nation
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