Clipped from France24
While the anti-regime demonstrators are taking a break until the new year, it is appropriate that their last 2020 rallies targeted Article 112 on lese majeste. After all more than two dozen of their members now face lese majeste charges.
The Bangkok Post reports that speakers at the rally “vowed to drum up public support for their call for the revocation of … the lese majeste law.” It is reported that:
In a joint statement read at the 14 October 1973 Memorial [where there had earlier been an explosion], one of the anti-government movement’s three rally sites in Bangkok on Thursday, eight protest leaders facing lese majeste charges insisted they would not settle for anything less than the law being repealed.
Rally chiefs want repeal of lese majeste law
published : 11 Dec 2020 at 06:33
11 Anti-government protesters rally at the 14 October 1973 Memorial on Thursday to support a move to end the lese majeste law. (Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut)
Anti-government protest leaders, who are facing charges for allegedly offending the monarchy, on Thursday vowed to drum up public support for their call for the revocation of Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or the lese majeste law.
In a joint statement read at the 14 October 1973 Memorial, one of the anti-government movement s three rally sites in Bangkok on Thursday, eight protest leaders facing lese majeste charges insisted they would not settle for anything less than the law being repealed.
Rally chiefs want repeal of lese majeste law
published : 11 Dec 2020 at 06:33
11 Anti-government protesters rally at the 14 October 1973 Memorial on Thursday to support a move to end the lese majeste law. (Photo by Nutthawat Wicheanbut)
Anti-government protest leaders, who are facing charges for allegedly offending the monarchy, on Thursday vowed to drum up public support for their call for the revocation of Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or the lese majeste law.
In a joint statement read at the 14 October 1973 Memorial, one of the anti-government movement s three rally sites in Bangkok on Thursday, eight protest leaders facing lese majeste charges insisted they would not settle for anything less than the law being repealed.