Following up on our last post, PPT noted a Prachatai report that “77 civil society organizations have petitioned for the President of the Supreme Court to grant bail to five protesters detained pending appeal over an incident on 14 October 2020, when they were accused of trying to block a royal motorcade on Phitsanulok Road during an anti-government protest.” The report states:
The petition was filed by representatives of the organizations, including Ticha Nanakorn, Director of the Ban Kanchanapisek Juvenile Vocational Training Centre for Boys; Chuwit Chantaros, Secretary-General of the Child, Youth, and Family Foundation; Bangkok Hub representative Jiraphong Inkong; and Amnat Paenprasoet, brother of community activist Suranat Paenprasoet, who is among the detained protesters.
The petition states that there is a constitutional principle of presumption of innocence and the right to bail and added that as there has been no final verdict the defendants should be treated as innocent.
In PPT’s view, the sentences meted out to these five amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Clearly, the sentences are a judicial effort to satisfy higher ups and other ultra-royalists.
Political Prisoners in Thailand 
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