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Unlawful rally case against Move Forward MP Rangsiman withdrawn

Move Forward Party MP Pornprom Satrabhaya, white shirt and tie, gives a three-finger salute at an anti-government rally outside Siam Commercial Bank’s head office on Nov 25. (Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya)

The Criminal Court on Monday approved the prosecution’s request to withdraw a case against Rangsiman Rome, a Move Forward Party MP, on the grounds the same charges against six other defendants had already been dismissed.

Mr Rangsiman and six others were indicted together by the prosecution with instigating unrest by staging a rally at the Democracy Monument on Ratchadamnoen avenue on Feb 10, 2018, calling for the then-government to hold a general election by November that year.

They were charged under Section 116 of the Criminal Code and with violating the ruling junta’s National Council for Peace and…

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