Chaos hit the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) election campaign in Bangkok's Thonburi area on Saturday when protesters led by two activists of hunger-striking fame showed up to query the lese majeste law.
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Police arrested a 24-year-old man on Tuesday (March 28) evening as he graffitied a message protesting the lese majeste law on the wall of Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district.
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Two women activists gave up their hunger strike of more than seven weeks, announcing they have decided it is better to live so they can continue their unfinished fight for political and judicial reforms.
AFP Two young Thai protesters facing royal defamation charges announced Saturday they were ending their marathon hunger strike following doctors' fears they could suffer organ failure. Tantawan "Tawan" Tuatulanon, 21, and Orawan "Bam" Phupong, 23, began their hunger strike on January 18 to urge political parties to support the abolition of the kingdom's royal insult laws among the harshest in the world. Wednesday marked the 50th day of the young women's protest. They were freed from custody last month as their health declined.