Red-shirt leader Jatuporn Promphan on Thursday asked police to lay more than 200 criminal charges following social media attacks on him in the run-up to last month’s local elections.
The chairman of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) went to the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) and asked that the charges be filed against those who had either posted false information about him or shared it online.
The legal action stemmed from his open support for Boonlert Buranupakorn, a candidate in the Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) election in Chiang Mai during the campaign for the poll.
Mr Boonlert, who previously…
