Court warns 11 EC supporters they are facing contempt
Anti-Thaksin activists Wichai Euasiyaphan, far left, and Ritthirong Likhitprasert, centre, and Thaksin supporter Mongkol Buntem, right, are detained at Pathumwan police station after the clash at Central World Plaza yesterday.
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Supporters of the three former election commissioners who received suspended jail sentences earlier this month for contempt of court will face jail terms if witnesses complain they have been involved in recent spates of violence between pro and anti government groups.
Criminal Court secretary Than Bunyatulanon yesterday called on witnesses to file complaints with police if they had seen any of the 11 people who were sentenced to one-year suspended jail terms being involved in the violence of the past few days.On August 3, the court sentenced four people to jail terms and another 11 to one-year suspended jail terms after they confessed to having made inappropriate comments and acted inappropriately in a protest against the court's verdict in the case of the three EC commissioners. Than said the verdict against the 11 included a condition that they refrain from involvement in any activities that disturbed the peace or caused conflict among members of the public for one year. "If they violate that condition, the court can revoke the suspension and send them to jail,'' he said. A source said some of the 11 were seen in an incident that almost ended in a clash at Rajabhat Chankasem University where an anti-government group organised a press conference on Sunday.
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