Ex-UDD chairman to appeal court ruling
The Criminal Court has sentenced Jatuporn Prompan, former chairman of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), to two years in prison in connection with the violent 2007 protest at the Si Sao Thewes Residence, then home of late Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda.
The court on Thursday handed down the prison sentence to Jatuporn on charges of sedition, resisting arrest, and physically assaulting security officers. However, it acquitted another suspect.
Jatuporn, who at the beginning of the trial denied any wrongdoing, later confessed to the charges, saying he no longer wanted to fight the case after he…
