Rallies are being held in eight areas across Bangkok on Monday, as activists return to the streets to protest punishments under the Section 112 lese majeste law, and other issues.
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Rallies are being held in eight areas across Bangkok on Monday (May 30), as activists return to the streets to protest punishments under the Section 112 lese majeste law, and other issues.
Police on Monday night arrested two adolescents who threw explosives at a traffic police kiosk at Asok-Din Daeng intersection, and seized numerous ping-pong bombs and similar items, Metropolitan Police Bureau spokesman Pol Maj Gen Jirasant Kaewsaeng-ek said.
As the mainstream media seem to be ignoring lese majeste and other political repression while also self-censoring on anything to do with the monarchy, it is Prachatai that is providing a window on rabid monarchism that looks increasingly like ratbag fascism by both state royalists and citizen monarchists. In one report we are reminded that…
18 04 2021
There’s been considerable sympathy for the political activists detained without bail on lese majeste charges, some of them refusing solid food. In a situation where the virus is spreading rapidly, a lot of this has been seen on social media.
Yet, as Prachatai recently reported, for some time, the Resistant Citizen group has been arranging 112 minute daily “Just Standing” protests, targeting court buildings across the country, and attracting dozens to several hundred people. Clipped from Matichon
Among those joining have been academics, lawyers and the mothers of some of the detainees, all holding banners. Some of the mothers are quoted: