Top Thai court accepts case seeking
to dissolve reformist party
BANGKOK, Apr 03: Thailand's Constitutional Court agreed Wednesday to hear a case seeking the dissolution of the reformist Move Forward Party over their campaign pledge to reform the kingdom's tough royal defamation laws. The party upended the kingdom's political order in last year's May election, scoring the most votes after a campaign promising reform of the military, business monopolies and to amend the lese-majeste laws. But their audacious bid shocked the Thai establishment and ended with them locked out of a coalition government following months of political and legal wrangling. Last month, the Election Commission (EC) agreed "unanimously" to petition the Constitutional Court to dissolve MFP over the party's campaign pledge to reform the kingdom's tough royal insult laws. — AFP
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Video shows California police shooting teen
they were supposed to rescue
LOS ANGELES, Apr: Newly released video shows US police shooting dead a kidnapped teenage girl they had been tasked with rescuing, in a chaotic incident on a busy California highway. Savannah Graziano, 15, was gunned down as one deputy called her away from her gun-toting father, who had killed her mother a day earlier and abducted his daughter. The episode unfolded in September 2022 when officers in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, began chasing the vehicle Anthony Graziano was driving with Savannah in the passenger seat. — AFP
News in Brief-(2024-04-04)
FE Team | Published: April 03, 2024 22:41:59
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