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The reason why human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa is still in jail is because the people in power are scared.
A small group of oppressors always lives in fear that one day the masses will wake up and turn against them.
The fact that the pro-democracy movement managed to raise more than 10 million baht for bail funding in less than five hours on Wednesday shows that the movement is not dead.
Associate Professor Dr Paungthong Pawakapan and Asisatant Professor Dr Chalita Bundhuwong showed to the media that the money was mostly raised through small donations.
The state is scared.
The Bangkok South Criminal Court, the only court yet to allow bail for Arnon, took down the name of the judges on the court from their website.
The order to deny bail for Arnon was not signed by any individual judge, it just said that it was a collective decision from a meeting.
The Bangkok South Criminal Court explained that the reason they decided not to grant bail for Arnon was because his reason for shaking bail, to take care of his family, was not a sufficient argument.
As a reminder, Arnon did not kill anyone and he has not been convicted of anything. He is on pretrial detention because this government is afraid of what he is saying.
They know that they will lose to the masses and he can unite them. Arnon has been in and out of jail six times now with more than 200 days in jail over the two years, all of them on pretrial detention, which showed how much they are scared of him.
“Tonight there was a father waiting to hug his daughter but he cannot hug her. There was a small child who was crying for her father for another night and a mother that that travelled a long way to wait for her son,” Arnon’s friend wrote on his Facebook page the night they found out that he will not be released.
“We will remember such repulsive actions and we will not forget the people who look down on others,” they said.
Remember this is the same country where a policeman who recklessly crashed his motorbike into a doctor at a street crossing was released on bail with a surety of 50,000 baht.
