CHON BURI - Key members of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will next week seek bail for 13 colleagues jailed by the Appeal Court for storming the Asean Summit in Pattaya in 2009.
UDD leaders Jatuporn Prompan, Nattawut Saikuar, Weng Tojirakarn, Tida Tavornseth and Korkaew Pikulthong visited the 13 people at the Pattaya Remand Prison for about 30 minutes on Wednesday.
Afterwards, Mr Jatuporn said lawyers would take about a week to prepare new bail requests for all 13, which would be filed along with a hand-written petition to the Supreme Court for the 13 people.
On March 21 the Appeal Court upheld the lower court's sentence of a four-year jail term each, without suspension, for the 13 red-shirts for leading protesters who forced their way into the Royal Cliff Beach Resort Hotel in Pattaya, where the 2009 Asean Summit was being held.
The storming of the Asean Summit venue on April 11, 2009 in a protest against the Abhisit Vejjajiva government caused the evacuation of regional leaders and the postponement of the summit.
The 13 are: Nisit Sinthuprai, Payap Panket, Worachai Hema, Wanchana Kerddee, Pichet Sukjindathong, Sakda Noppasit, Pol Lt Col Waipot Aparat, Nopporn Namchiangtai, Samrerng Prachamrua, Somyot Promma, Wallop Yangtrong and Singthong Buachum and former singer Arisman Pongruangrong .
UDD leaders at the Pattaya Remand Prison on Wednesday (photo by Chaiyot Pupattanapong)