BANGKOK - Darunee Kritboonyalai, a core member of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), better known as red-shirt movement, on Tuesday turned herself in at a police station in Bangkok after having been at large for over one year.

Escorted by the red-shirt lawyer, Darunee, who has been charged with violating the emergency decree invoked during the group's bloody protest last year, denied all the charges.

Darunee fled the protestors encampment at Ratchaprasong intersection in central Bangkok when the military planned to disperse the demonstrators forcefully.

She confessed that she was in exile in neighboring Cambodia where she met with the fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and hard core leader Arisman Pongruangrong.

After an approximate one hour of investigation, she was released without bail.

The pro-Thaksin red-shirt movement had staged a chronic protest from March to May last year to demand the Democrat-led government dissolve the parliament and hold a snap election. The government had imposed emergency decree in Bangkok and its vicinity since April 7 in the face of escalating anti-government rally in Bangkok before extending to 23 provinces as the situation deteriorated.

About 252 red-shirt members and leaders had been detained since the protest was brought to a bloody end in mid-May.