BANGKOK (Reuters) - Six prominent Thai anti-government protest leaders were sentenced to two years in jail on Thursday for storming the prime minister's office during a 2008 rally - and then released on bail to allow for appeals.
Thousands of "yellow shirt" protesters from the royalist People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) held protracted rallies in 2006 that helped undermine then-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, leading to his overthrow later that year.
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