Thai prosecutors said on Wednesday they would decide after a March 24 election w...
BANGKOK - Thai prosecutors said on Wednesday they would decide after a March 24 election whether to pursue criminal charges against the leader of a new political party who criticized the military junta in a speech on Facebook last year.
The deferment of their decision came on the same day that Thailand’s Constitutional Court is to consider disqualifying another opposition party from the election, the first since a 2014 military coup.Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, a 40-year-old auto parts billionaire and political novice, and two colleagues could be jailed for up to five years under the Computer Crime Act for “uploading false information” in a speech posted on Facebook in June.
Thanathorn, who has promised to end what he describes as dictatorship and to weaken Thailand’s military, said earlier on Wednesday the prosecution was politically motivated.
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