Update on Jakrapob’s lèse majesté case
asiaoneNews (30 April 2009: “Cambodia not sheltering Thaksin”) reports on the lèse majesté case against Jakrapob Penkair.
The report states that public prosecutors postponed their meeting Jakrapob until 15 June. They will decide then whether to indict him.
Jakrapob is said to have asked for the postponement saying he had “some business to attend to overseas.” Other reports in recent days have the government claiming that he is in Cambodia allegedly organizing an uprising or an insurgency.
The prosecutors granted the request because “further investigation and questioning of witnesses, as well as translation of relevant documents, had not been completed, according to Kayasit Pisawongprakan, director-general of the criminal litigation division at the Attorney-General’s Office.”
The case relates to Jakrapob’s speech at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand in August 2007.
The report concluded: “If Jakrapob fails to report to the prosecutors on June 15, his guarantors would be asked to find him or an arrest warrant would be issued for him, Kayasit told a press conference at the Attorney-General’s Office.”
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