The Appeals Court on Thursday upheld the Criminal Court’s decision to acquit 21 former members of the now-defunct People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) led by former media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul of criminal charges for laying siege to the parliament building in 2008.
The charges, filed in 2012, accused the defendants, including Mr Sondhi and 20 others, of causing unrest by leading a large number of demonstrators to lay siege to the parliament from Oct 5 to Oct 7, 2008,…