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Former WeVo guards get suspended jail terms

Leader ‘Toto’ and 18 others convicted and fined for illegal assembly in connection with 2020 protest

Piyarat “Toto” Chongthep, then leader of the We Volunteer (WeVo) pro-democracy group, arrives at Yannawa police station on Feb 19, 2021 to hear charges relating to a protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok. (File photo: Apichart Jinakul)

The former chief guard of the volunteer group known as WeVo and 18 others have been sentenced to 20 days each in jail, suspended for two years, and fined 6,000 baht each, for illegal assembly and obstructing police during an anti-government protest in December 2020.

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