Thai Yellow Shirts convicted of slandering Thaksin
A Thai court convicted two prominent members of the royalist "Yellow Shirt" protest movement Thursday of defaming fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra by accusing him of insulting the monarchy.
Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) leader Sondhi Limthongkul (C) arrives at the Criminal Court in Bangkok on September 2, 2010. A Thai court convicted Sondhi and Soracha Pornudomsak, two prominent members of the royalist "Yellow Shirt" protest movement of defaming fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul and Soracha Pornudomsak, who together hosted a show on Sondhi's pro-Yellow television channel, were each handed fines and a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years by a Bangkok criminal court.
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