Three Thai cabinet officials accused of anti-government protests by the Thai court

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BANGKOK, 25 February, 2021 (TON): On Wednesday, three present Thai Cabinet ministers lost their posts due to their court verdicts for jail in relation to 2014's Bangkok shutdown and street protests which had been unlawfully harmonized by them.

Media reported that Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan, Digital Economy and Society Minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta, and Deputy Transport Minister Thavorn Senniam, who received jail terms ranging from five years to seven years and four months respectively, have automatically lost their ministerial seats.

The Criminal Court ruled a group of 39 defendants, all being former political activists attached to the now-defunct People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), guilty of illicitly organizing the massive anti-government protests against the government of the former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

Former deputy prime minister and former secretary-general of the PDRC Suthep Thaugsuban were among the convicts and sentenced to five years in jail.

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