New Mandala readers who prefer their coverage in the Thai language will appreciate this translation of a recent post. That post highlights the ongoing plight of Daranee “Da Torpedo” Charnchoengsilpakul who is on trial for lese majeste. Does anyone know what has happened since the court was closed last week? How is she faring?
“The injustice of a closed trial” in Thai
July 2nd, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 3 Comments
Tags: Abhisit · Royal family · Thailand · UDD · lese majeste
3 responses so far ↓
1 Jonathan Head // Jul 2, 2009 at 11:05 pm
The trial was adjourned until 28 July after her lawyer protested against the trial being held in secret. His appeal to the court made no headway, so he is planning to appeal to the Constitutional Court on the grounds that her constitutional right to a public trial is being denied.
The Thai criminal code does allow closed trials on grounds of national security – the grounds invoked by the judge in Daranee’s case – although Amnesty International has made the point that this argument in her case is very unpersuasive.
She has lost a lot of weight – a few months ago she referred to a jaw infection which had made her feel very ill.
2 Nicholas Farrelly // Jul 3, 2009 at 9:32 am
Thanks Jonathan,
This is very helpful.
Best wishes to all,
Nich
3 Anonymous Coward // Jul 4, 2009 at 3:20 am
I can load the link above on a True Internet connection but when I click the home link to http://liberalthai.wordpress.com/, I’m greeted with a lame, failed redirect to w3.mict.go.th
The server at w3.mict.go.th is taking too long to respond.
You’ve been snooped on by the broken apparatus of the Thai spy machine it seems.
Works fine with a VPN to outside of course.
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