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Thailand’s Politicized Courts Fuel Protests

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Nov 27, 2013
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Last Wednesday, Thailand’s Constitutional Court declared that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s ruling Pheu Thai Party government had, by seeking to make the upper house Senate a fully-elected body, engaged in unconstitutional acts.

Remarkably, the verdict was based on complaints that referred to Section 68 of the 2007 constitution, which implies that…

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