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A week after the military-installed regime headed by former general Prayut Chan-o-cha issued an emergency decree (at 4am on October 15, while tens of thousands of demonstrators held an overnight protest outside his office) banning gatherings of more than five people, the Free Youth student-led (...)
Hands point above head = need umbrella; Hands held over head = need helmet; Hands crossed over chest = enough supplies here.
Thai protesters are learning a whole new language, developed within days to coordinate among crowds of thousands of people at demonstrations that have swollen in (...)
The University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies Program on Alternative Development (UP CIDS AltDev) is in solidarity with the protest movement of different sectors in Thailand; we support their calls for just and democratic reforms in the political system, and (...)
The Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Ekachai Hongkangwan and Boonkueanoon Paothong, who were at the 14 October protest where they found themselves in the middle of a police blockade and the royal motorcade of the Queen and the King’s son.
A moment when the royal motorcade passing (...)
’After a six-year hiatus, Thais are back battling for control of the streets, this time not against each other but against the police and its military masters’
At a time when democracy seems to be on the ropes in many parts of the world, the sight of thousands of people massing against both the (...)
A growing wave of student-initiated pro-democracy protests have been sweeping Thailand since February. They have united a new generation of activists with former Red Shirts and even some disaffected people from the Yellow Shirt movement demanding: 1) the resignation of the Prayut regime and (...)
BANGKOK, Thailand – The crackdown has emboldened the movement’s mostly young supporters who have turned up in large numbers to daily guerrilla protests around Bangkok.
Thousands of pro-democracy protestors took over a major Bangkok intersection on Sunday, October 18, with posters bearing the (...)
The growing wave of student-initiated democracy protests that have been sweeping Thailand since February are shaking the military coup-installed regime.
October 14 democracy protest in Bangkok. Photo: Green Left
Riot police and military were sent in before dawn on October 15, to violently (...)
An MP from Germany’s Green Party has questioned the German Foreign Ministry about its position towards the protests in Thailand and Thai King’s status in Bavaria. The Foreign Minister insists that Thai politics must not be conducted from German territory.
On 7 October 2020, Germany, Dr Frithjof (...)
At the conclusion of a 30,000-strong overnight rally in Bangkok on September 19–20, the young organisers of the new democracy movement now rocking politics in Thailand called for a general strike on October 14, the anniversary of the historic student uprising of 1973 that brought down the Thanom (...)
The 10th of August 2020 will be remembered as either a key date in Thailand’s transition to democracy or as a precursor to yet another coup carried out by a military pledging itself to the defence of the monarchy.
On that date, a representative of a group of students at a protest held at (...)
Curb on 1m-member ‘Royalist Marketplace’ comes after legal threat from Thai government
Facebook has blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discusses the country’s king, after the Thai government threatened the company with legal action.
The decision, which has been (...)
Observers are astonished by how young people are challenging traditional hierarchies
Every morning when the national anthem plays out in Thai schools, students are expected to stand still in deference as the country’s flag is raised. But last week some sent a defiant message, raising their (...)
Student-led protests ramp up potential for conflict with rising calls for an end to military-rigged politics and ultra-taboo royal reforms
BANGKOK – At the largest student protest yet against Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha and his military-aligned coalition government, youthful speakers (...)
The protest at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on 16th August was a great success with crowds of up to 50,000 people coming to show their anger at the continued parliamentary dictatorship of Generalissimo Prayut and the behaviour of king Wachiralongkorn.
The protest was organised by the (...)
Thammasat University in Bangkok has an iconic place in the long history of pro-democracy struggles in Thailand. On August 10, thousands of students rallied on the campus, in the largest of a string of mass student-led protests. Actions have taken place in most major cities since a July 18 rally (...)
Anger has been building since 2014 coup in which prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power, with students now holding rallies almost daily
Thai protesters have broken a long-standing taboo, risking lengthy jail terms to criticise the king, after weeks of student-led pro-democracy rallies (...)
The organizer of the demonstration at Thammasat University read their first declaration. It proposes that the monarchy should be reformed in line with democratic principles. The perception toward the monarchy should not be exaggerated.
Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, the Student Union of (...)
The arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Arnon Nampha and at least one student activist signals a dangerous escalation in the Thai government’s efforts to suppress a growing protest movement, said ARTICLE 19. The two individuals are among a group of activists sought by the police in (...)
Despite attempts at intervention at all levels by state agents, student-led protests against dictatorship have continued nationwide for a second consecutive week
Following the Free Youth protest on Saturday 18 July, young people in over 46 provinces across the nation organized protests in (...)
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