A Thai court has acquitted nearly 70 people of all charges related to mass protests that shut down Bangkok’s two airports in 2008 for about 10 days.
FILE - Anti government protesters sits in front of the departure terminal at Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok in the early hours of Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008. A Thai court on Friday, March 29, 2024, acquitted nearly 70 people of all charges related to mass protests that shut down Bangkok’s two airports in 2008.
Members of the group, the People’s Alliance for Democracy, also briefly seized a state television station and occupied Government House for three months. Witnesses to the 2008 protests, including Associated Press reporters, saw acts of violence and intimidation by sometimes-armed guards employed by the PAD, though not by the people acquitted in January and on Friday.
“Our ordeal is not wasted. The ruling helps heal our feelings, and many of the defendants shed tears,” he posted on Facebook., although about a dozen of them were given 20,000 baht fines for violating an emergency decree that had banned public gatherings.for wearing shirts with that color that shows loyalty to the Thai monarchy — had occupied Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports.
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