Thai PM pleads for justice

With legal cases against her mounting, embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for fair and proper treatment from the national anti-corruption commission and Thailand's Constitutional Court. Thailand's political crisis looks set to enter a new, potentially turbulent phase as Yingluck faces at least two legal cases that could see her removed from office in coming weeks, a move that is likely to jolt her supporters in to action and bring the country closer, some fear, to civil strife. "I ask that the Constitutional Court and National Anti-Corruption Commission use fair treatment when they deliberate the cases against me. I ask for the same treatment that past political office holders have received," Yingluck told reporters in Bangkok on Tuesday, according to Reuters.