FREEDOM UNWANTED
012. Press Assn—Copyright) BANGKOK, July 15. Two elderly convicts freed from a Bangkok prison yesterday under an amnestv decree. immediately began a sit-down protest outside the prison gates against their reThe men. one aged 82. the other 63, demanded that the prison governor allow them ip again because they had no money and nowhere to The authorities told them that, under prison regulations, no person could be allowed in without a court order, but Sontee Saw lang, who had served six years with hard labour on a murder charge, and Meng Penkeow, a convicted robber, stayed put. Towards evening the Director-General of the Thai Prisons Department (Mr Pradith Panitcharn) heard of the incident, and ordered that the two men be given shelter for the night in the warden’s office.
The Public Welfare Department will try today to arrange accommodation for them in an old people’s home.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32660, 16 July 1971, Page 9
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