The Lawbreaker Court the other day sentenced Rawee Maschamadol, among 4 leaders of individuals’s Army and Energy Reform Network (PAERN), to 8 months in jail, suspended for 2 years, for the profession of a PTT Plc structure and triggering damage to Energy Ministry workplaces throughout mass street demonstrations in 2014.
Rawee: Avoids serving time
Dr Rawee, a doctor, was condemned of conspiring in prohibited assembly and triggering public turmoil on Jan 13, 2014.
The court likewise fined him 6,000 baht.
Of the 105 co-defendants in the event, 2 were handed jail terms of 2 months and 20 days, without suspension.
One offender was acquitted. The rest, consisting of the 3 other co-leaders, were offered two-month jail terms, suspended for 2 years, and fined 2,000 baht each.
All accuseds had previously rejected the charges and were totally free on bail. Dr Rawee stated he would not appeal the sentence.
He promised to continue marketing for nationwide energy reform.
Previously, the Civil Court bought the 4 PAERN co-leaders to pay nearly 10 million baht in payment to PTT Plc for damages brought on by its profession of the business’s home throughout the 2014 demonstrations. The 4 are Dr Rawee, Thotsaphon Kaewthima, Itthabun Onwongsa and Somkiat Pongpaiboon.
The PAERN demonstration occurred in combination with a bigger presentation led by the Individuals’s Democratic Reform Committee, which led months-long street demonstrations that culminated in the topple of the Pheu Thai Party-led administration by the armed force. PAERN inhabited the Energy Complex Structure beside PTT head office on Jan 13, 2014, an action PTT stated avoided personnel from going into the center, the court stated in the judgment.
The company required 15.9 billion baht, plus 123,160 baht and 280,000 baht a day for loss of earnings.
The accuseds had actually argued they had a constitutional right to rally there. In comparable cases, core members of the now-defunct Individuals’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) were sentenced to 8 months in jail and bought to pay the complete 552 million baht required for demonstrations by the group in 2008 that caused the momentary closure of the capital’s 2 primary airports.
The PAD laid siege to the airports from Nov 24 to Dec 3, 2008 in demonstration versus the Somchai Wongsawat federal government.
Core leaders of the United Front for Democracy versus Dictatorship, on the other hand, were imprisoned for 2 years for storming an Asean Top place in Pattaya in 2009, and surrounding Privy Council President Prem Tinsulanonda’s home in 2010.
