Red shirt protesters storm inside the Royal Cliff Resort in a bid to disrupt the Asean Summit in Pattaya in April 2009. (File photo by Sarot Meksophawannakul)CHON BURI - Key members of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) will next week seek bail for 13 colleagues jailed by the Appeal Court for storming the Asean Summit in Pattaya in 2009. UDD leaders Jatuporn Prompan, Nattawut Saikuar, Weng Tojirakarn, Tida Tavornseth and Korkaew Pikulthong visited the 13 people at the Pattaya Remand Prison for about 30 minutes on Wednesday. On March 21 the Appeal Court upheld the lower court's sentence of a four-year jail term each, without suspension, for the 13 red-shirts for leading protesters who forced their way into the Royal Cliff Beach Resort Hotel in Pattaya, where the 2009 Asean Summit was being held. The storming of the Asean Summit venue on April 11, 2009 in a protest against the Abhisit Vejjajiva government caused the evacuation of regional leaders and the postponement of the summit.

Source: Bangkok Post March 29, 2017 07:52 UTC