Hundreds protest Thai verdict on Myanmar migrant workers

Hundreds of people on Friday protested over Thai court' s verdict on two Myanmar migrant workers outside Thai Embassy here, a day after the two were sentenced to death for murdering two British backpackers in southern Thailand last year.

The protest demanding for the release of the two was participated by people of various layers, including Buddhist monks, political activists and artists.

Dozens of police guarded outside the embassy and closed all roads leading to the area.

The demonstration followed a death penalty sentenced to two Myanmar citizens found guilty of a British Duo's murder in Koh Tao, Thailand.

The court on the resort island of Samui sentenced the two 22-year-old Myanmar workers to death for raping and murdering Hannah Witheridge, as well as killing David Mille in mid-September 2014. Both victims were in their early 20s.

The defendants, arrested two weeks after the murders, also got two-year imprisonment for robbery and illegal entry.

The suspects had initially confessed to killing two British nationals on the beach of Koh Tao last September, only to withdraw their confessions later, claiming they were made under duress. Police have denied the accusations.

Forensic evidences, such as DNA samples collected from cigarette butts found near the victims' bodies, linked the suspects to the case, according to local authorities. But defense attorneys have insisted the DNA evidence is flawed. Endit