Interior Ministry to allow signers of pardon petition to recant

Petition signers can renounce the pardon petition beginning Friday at all provincial and district offices.

"I have been informed that many people now realise the truth and want to withdrawal their names, therefore I have ordered every province and district to set up a table for the people to sign and recant the petition," Chaovarat said.

He said the names of those recanting the petition will be later released to the public as a counter measure against the improper and illegal campaign.

He said the red-shirt campaign organisers had misled the people about the petition even though under the law, only convicts and their relatives were entitled to seek a royal pardon.