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Jailed red-shirt leader seeks Thai court approval for party-list registration
BANGKOK, May 18 (TNA) - A jailed red-shirt leader, Jatuporn Prompan, has sought judicial approval for temporary release from prison for Thursday so that he can apply to be a candidate under the Puea Thai Party in Thailand's upcoming general election on July 3.
Jatuporn assigned a lawyer from his mass civil organisation National United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), which is aligned with exiled ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, to file the petition with Bangkok's Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road on Wednesday.
Under the written petition, the jailed UDD leader requested the court to issue an order to the chief of the Thai Ministry of Justice's Corrections Department to assign officials of Bangkok Remand Prison, where he has been detained, to escort him out of his cell for the registration, as was done with a previous UDD leader, Ko Kaew Pikulthong before he was recently released on bail.
Jatuporn, a former Puea Thai party-list MP, was charged with sedition during red shirt rallies in the capital before having his bail revoked in the wake of the dissolution of Thailand's House of Representatives earlier this Month.
The Election Commission of Thailand (EC) has set May 19-23 as the period for the registration of the candidate lists of all political parties. These will be received at the Thai-Japanese youth sport centre in Din Daeng, in Bangkok on each of these days from 8:30am-4:30pm. (TNA)
Jatuporn assigned a lawyer from his mass civil organisation National United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), which is aligned with exiled ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, to file the petition with Bangkok's Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road on Wednesday.
Under the written petition, the jailed UDD leader requested the court to issue an order to the chief of the Thai Ministry of Justice's Corrections Department to assign officials of Bangkok Remand Prison, where he has been detained, to escort him out of his cell for the registration, as was done with a previous UDD leader, Ko Kaew Pikulthong before he was recently released on bail.
Jatuporn, a former Puea Thai party-list MP, was charged with sedition during red shirt rallies in the capital before having his bail revoked in the wake of the dissolution of Thailand's House of Representatives earlier this Month.
The Election Commission of Thailand (EC) has set May 19-23 as the period for the registration of the candidate lists of all political parties. These will be received at the Thai-Japanese youth sport centre in Din Daeng, in Bangkok on each of these days from 8:30am-4:30pm. (TNA)
