PUBLISHED : 6 Sep 2023 at 05:11
The new government should consider passing a new law to grant amnesty to all those facing criminal sentences in connection with their political activities regardless of their affiliations, said Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, secretary-general of the Progressive Movement, on Tuesday.
Piyabutr: ‘Amnesty for national unity’
Mr Piyabutr, a law expert and former lecturer at Thammasat University, said an amnesty would be an ideal way to bring about national unity as it would stop people from asking whether former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is receiving privileges over other inmates.
Thaksin has been in the Police General Hospital’s premium ward after spending only 13 hours in Bangkok Remand Prison’s…
