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  • Covid-19 NewsThai Department of Corrections suspends 7,890 prison sentences in past six months
    AnukulPublished: 10:15, 16 April 2020
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    Thai Department of Corrections suspends 7,890 prison sentences in past six months

    The Director-general of the Thai Department of Corrections Police Colonel Naras Savestanan, has announced that he will speed up the process to grant suspended sentences, or lessen the prison terms, for qualified inmates right across Thailand. Inmates who are facing minor offences and shown good behaviour during their incarceration are also to be included in the process. “The number of…

  • Covid-19 NewsAdditional safety measures for Thai prisons
    Sean KellyPublished: 16:47, 12 April 2020
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    Additional safety measures for Thai prisons

    With curfew violations continuing to escalate, and memories of prison riots from fears of Coronavirus, the Department of Corrections stated they have further increased measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and reduce the fears of inmates. The measures, according to an announcement by the PR Department, will consist of isolating new prisoners for 14 days, cancelling the professional training…

  • Covid-19 NewsPattaya issues three month prison sentence to curfew violators
    Sean KellyPublished: 20:22, 08 April 2020
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    Pattaya issues three month prison sentence to curfew violators

    Three Thai men were caught in Pattaya yesterday evening violating the Emergency Decree curfew and sentenced to three months in prison. Pattaya City Police posted on their Thai social media channels and reminded its Thai and English audience not to go out between 10 pm and 4 am without a valid reason or face the consequences. After a rise in curfew…

  • Covid-19 News7 imprisoned for selling over-priced face masks
    AnukulPublished: 14:19, 20 March 2020
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    7 imprisoned for selling over-priced face masks

    Yesterday, at the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Road, the prosecutor of the Economic and Resource ‘Litigation 2’ filed 7 lawsuits with the court for selling masks at an unreasonably high price. The 7 defendants were caught during a government crackdown on overpriced protective gear following the out break of the Coronavirus. The defendants’ testimony has been examined and all the…

  • World NewsDutchman jailed for 100 years in Thailand for money laundering is released
    ThaigerPublished: 11:08, 19 January 2020
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    Dutchman jailed for 100 years in Thailand for money laundering is released

    A Dutch citizen who was jailed for 100 years in Thailand, is now on his way home after years of campaigning for his release. His sentence was reduced to 75 years on appeal and later to 50 years by the Supreme court. Johan van Laarhoven, who ran several cannabis “coffee shops” in Holland, was jailed in Thailand for money laundering, along…

  • Central Thailand NewsJustice minister orders probe in prison deaths
    ThaigerPublished: 14:20, 09 January 2020
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    Justice minister orders probe in prison deaths

    An investigation is now proceeding into the deaths of four inmates at the Phitsanulok Provincial Prison who died with “extremely low potassium and high levels of thyroid hormone in their blood”, more commonly thought to be food poisoning. The Thai Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin, who ordered the probe, says he suspects prison administrators were inadvertently, or possibly even deliberately, negligent.…

  • Central Thailand NewsPrison sends 24 inmates for treatment after “mystery deaths”
    ThaigerPublished: 09:58, 07 January 2020
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    Prison sends 24 inmates for treatment after “mystery deaths”

    PHOTO: Longdo Map Following the deaths of four prisoners over the New Year break, the Phitsanulok Provincial Prison has sent another 24 inmates for treatment. All 24 were found to have high levels of “thyroid hormones and rapid heart rates”. Officials originally reported that the four dead prisoners had shown “symptoms related to food poisoning, such as numbness in the…

  • Northern Thailand NewsFugitive ‘serial killer’ Somkid arrested on Bangkok-bound train
    ThaigerPublished: 13:37, 18 December 2019
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    Fugitive ‘serial killer’ Somkid arrested on Bangkok-bound train

    Police have arrested the convicted killer Somkid Poompuang, who has been nick-named in Thai media as “Jack the Ripper” and “Kid the Ripper” this morning. He was on the run since a murder in Khon Kaen last Sunday. 55 year old Somkid was on a train at a railway station in the Pak Chong district of Nakhon Ratchasima province in north…

  • Thailand NewsBurmese migrants released from Thai prison after murder convictions overturned
    ThaigerPublished: 18:05, 29 June 2019
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    Burmese migrants released from Thai prison after murder convictions overturned

    By Nyein Nyein – The Irrawaddy | PHOTO: Facebook/Htoo Chit Two Burmese migrants, serving six and eight year sentences for the alleged murder of a Thai woman in Ranong, southern Thailand in 2015, have won their appeal in a Thai court. Sein Kadone and Wai Lin, who received eight and six year sentences, respectively, have been in prison for three years…

  • Crime News49 year old Israeli, deported after dismembering wife in Bangkok, arrested in eastern Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 11:34, 25 June 2019
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    49 year old Israeli, deported after dismembering wife in Bangkok, arrested in eastern Thailand

    PHOTO: INN News The immigration chief told media yesterday that an Israeli man convicted for dismembering his wife and dumping her body parts back in 2004, has been caught in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district, near the Cambodian border, at the Rong Kleua market. 49 year old Eli Cohen was sentenced to life in prison in December 2004 for murdering his wife,…

  • Crime NewsUS Navy veteran locked up in Thai prison, family pleas for help
    ThaigerPublished: 14:54, 16 June 2019
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    US Navy veteran locked up in Thai prison, family pleas for help

    by Lauren Talarico A US Navy veteran from Texas remains locked up in a Thai prison for something his family says he didn’t do. Derrick Keller was arrested on August 20, 2018. But his family says the allegations against him are not true and they desperately want him home. Derrick Keller’s family doesn’t know what to do next after their…

  • Hot NewsPremchai verdict and prison sentence comes just 5 days before the election
    ThaigerPublished: 12:56, 19 March 2019
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    Premchai verdict and prison sentence comes just 5 days before the election

    Premchai Karnasutra, once listed among Thailand’s richest people, has been found guilty in a Kanchanaburi court of poaching protected animals, and sentenced to 16 months in jail. Wildlife rangers arrested the 64 year old tycoon along with four other associates in the Thungyai Naresuan nature reserve, a world heritage site in Kanchanaburi in February last year. The incident has caused…

  • South Thailand NewsEscaped prisoner trio recaptured in Chumphon
    ThaigerPublished: 15:48, 13 October 2018
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    Escaped prisoner trio recaptured in Chumphon

    Three inmates who took advantage of a lapse in security, escaping from a court in Chumphon on Thursday, have been recaptured this morning in Chumpon. Police say the three were hiding on a mountain in a forest near by Huay Kla village in Tambon Tako in Chumphon’s Sawi district for the past two days. They went down to the village…

  • Thailand News388 suspected tuberculosis cases found at Phitsanulok prisons
    ThaigerPublished: 16:15, 27 September 2018
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    388 suspected tuberculosis cases found at Phitsanulok prisons

    Up to 388 inmates at two prisons in Phitsanulok have been found to have signs of tuberculosis. This revelation from public health officials after they performed lung x-rays on the inmates. Doctor Rattaphum Champhunot, assistant chief public health officer for Phitsanulok, says the latest x-ray examinations were performed earlier this month. At Phitsanulok Prison, 2,959 inmates received the x-ray and…