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Thai Prime Minister Not Guilty; Protesters Decry Justice System

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   BANGKOK - Thailand's highest court on Wednesday acquitted Prime
   Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha of wrongdoing linked to his stay in an army
   house long after he retired from the military, a case thatcould have
   seen him removed from office and offered a way out from a political
   crisis engulfing the kingdom.

   Pro-democracy protesters, who demonstrated in the tens of thousands to
   press for Prayuth to resign, immediately gathered at a major Bangkok
   intersection after the constitutional court's ruling in favor of the
   prime minister.

   The nine-judge bench unanimously decided Prayuth's prolonged stay at a
   taxpayer-funded army residence after he retired as army chief in late
   2014 was neither a conflict of interest nor violated "any laws" and
   therefore "he will remain prime minister."

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