Thai Red Shirt sentenced over royal seating claim – AFP, July 10, 2012
…In court Mr Abhisit successfully argued that since the chair had been provided by the royal household, his sitting on it could not be seen as a mark of disrespect.
‘The court finds the defendant did not honestly criticise the plaintiff,’ the judge said, adding that Jatuporn had been an opposition MP for the now-ruling Pheu Thai party at the time, and that his comments had ‘political motivation…’
Red Shirt Jatuporn sentenced for accusing Abhisit of sitting incorrectly during an audience with Thailand’s King
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