623 busted during curfew
published : 8 Apr 2020 at 10:07
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
More than 600 people nationwide have been charged with defying the 10pm to 4am curfew.
Prayuth Phetchakhun, deputy spokesman of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), said prosecutors have indicted a total of 623 people for violating the curfew.
On March 26, the government invoked the emergency decree to make people stay at home.
There is also a ban on gatherings causing public disturbances.
Violators are liable to a jail term of up to two years and/or a fine of up to 40,000 baht.
A court in Ayutthaya sentenced violators to 2-4 months in jail for illegal gatherings while a court in Pathum Thani handed down a 15-day jail term to one violator, he said.
He added that most violators are those who defied the curfew banning people leaving home from 10pm to 4am. Most were aged between 20-35, he said.
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Vocabulary
- busted: arrested, especially for offences relating to drugs, gambling, etc. - ถูกจับ, โดนจับกุม
- court: the place where legal trials take place and where crimes, etc. are judged - ศาล
- curfew: a law that does not allow people to go outside between a particular time in the evening and a particular time in the morning - กฎอัยการศึก คือห้ามออกนอกบ้านในยามวิกาล
- defy: to refuse to obey or accept someone or something - ท้า, เป็นปฏิปักษ์ต่อ
- disturbance: an occasion during which people behave in a noisy or violent way in a public place - ก่อความไม่สงบ หรือรบกวนประชาชน
- emergency decree (noun): a situation where the government takes on special powers in a dangerous situation and the rights of the people are often limited in some way - ประกาศภาวะฉุกเฉิน
- gathering: an occasion when many people come together as a group - การรวมตัว, การประชุม
- indict (verb): to officially accuse someone of a serious crime - ฟ้องร้อง
- invoke: to use a rule or law as a reason or basis for doing something - ประกาศใช้ (กฎหมาย), อ้าง (กฎหมาย)
- prosecutors (noun): lawyers whose job is to prove in court that someone accused of a crime is guilty อัยการ - อัยการ
- violate: to do something that is against a law, rule or agreement - ฝ่าฝืน, ละเมิด
- violators (noun): people who go against or refuse to obey a law, an agreement, etc. - ผู้ฝ่าฝืน, ผู้ละเมิดกฎ
