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The Justice Ministry is beginning the filing of bail applications for about 60 red-shirt detainees with the special budget of 43.8 million baht provided by the Yingluck Shinawatra government for use as bail bonds.
The first batch of detainees backed by the ministry's Human Rights Protection Department for bail will include 47 people held at the Lak Si Temporary Prison, and those charged with lese majeste offences, senior officials confirmed on Monday.The department had been working on the bail applications and other rights-related assistance for the prisoners without discrimination, the sources said."We are doing this for detainees in deep South cases and the red-shirts.
"On Wednesday the Justice Minister will also chair a meeting between our department and other agencies, such as the insurance committee, the Department of Special Investigation, the Law Society of Thailand and others on providing assistance to businesses affected by the 2010 violence," an official who asked not be named said.
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Red-shirt supporters have expressed dismay over ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's call for them to set aside their anger and frustration over social and legal injustices for the sake of national reconciliation.
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Discussion 11 : 06/02/2012 at 11:59 PM11
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Unbelievable! Government money to bail those who broke the law! Amazing Thailand! This has got to be abuse of power?
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Discussion 10 : 06/02/2012 at 03:01 PM10
If the government has a case why not try them? two years in jail? and no trial? Are they innocent until proven guilty, or guilty until proven innocent?
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Discussion 9 : 06/02/2012 at 02:19 PM9
“The department had been working on the bail applications and other rights-related assistance for the prisoners without discrimination” Sure, if you ask the Shinawatras then all red-shirts should be free without discrimination – as long as they are red-shirts. And it seems like the tax-payers have to pay one more time for the people who terrorized Bangkok for months.
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Discussion 8 : 06/02/2012 at 01:43 PM8
Why doesn't Thaksin pay their bail ? He paid for them to break the law. Compo and now this ! Thailand is in danger of becoming an ungovernable, lawless state.
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Discussion 7 : 06/02/2012 at 01:35 PM7
A criminal led government using hard working taxpayers money to bail out criminals who broke the law for him . If this doesn't show how ignorant we are I don't know what does .
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Discussion 6 : 06/02/2012 at 01:32 PM6
A state sponsored budget to bail out terrorists are practices of a zoo, not of a civilized government!
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Discussion 5 : 06/02/2012 at 01:25 PM5
All decent governments have laws to put offenders in jail but the PT government led by someone in Dubai use 48.3 million baht from PUBLIC MONEY to take offenders out of jail. The 48.3 million baht would be better used with flood victims due to mismanagement.
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Discussion 4 : 06/02/2012 at 01:10 PM4
Payback time for Phuea Thai to the red shirt mob. What a disgrace. This is an invitation to commit crimes under the pretext of fighting for democracy.
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Discussion 3 : 06/02/2012 at 01:09 PM3
Am i thick How can the goverment give bail to criminals??? Poor Thailand yet again the international community will be laughing at the TS goverment.
Discussion 2 : 06/02/2012 at 01:02 PM2
Why is taxpayers money being wasted to bail out people people arrested for breaking the law ? The fact that people allow this to happen is pathetic . Its sad that we are really that morally bankrupt .If you need a moral compass look to countries around you and ask them if they would do such a ridiculous thing . This is the beginning of the end .
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