In 2020, nearly 160 activists were hit with criminal charges for the protests under Thailand’s tough royal defamation laws, which carry a jail sentence of up to 15 years each.
University World News reports that administrators at Thailand's most royalist of universities, Chulalongkorn, have declared that they will "take disciplinary action" against student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, who is President of the Chulalongkorn University Student Union. The "disciplinary action" will extend to other leaders of the university’s student union "for organising an orientation for incoming students…