Thai police arrested a rapper and seven pro-democracy activists in a crackdown on growing protests that have emerged as the most serious threat to the government led by a former army general they accuse of incompetence and corruption.
Key member of the music group Rap Against Dictatorship, Dechathorn Bamrungmuang raises a three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance, as he arrives at the Samranrat police station in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Aug, 20, 2020. Thai police arrested Dechathorn and four pro-democracy activists in a crackdown on growing protests that have emerged as the most serious threat to the government led by a former army general they accuse of incompetence and corruption.
The activists facing sedition charges have called on Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and his administration to resign. The protests, fanned by thousands of students, are the most serious threat yet to an ex-army chief who seized power in the 2014 military coup and then retained it in a 2019 election widely seen as rigged to guarantee his victory.
Protest leaders triggered controversy earlier this month when they expanded their original agenda, publicly criticizing Thailand’s constitutional monarchy and issuing a 10-point manifesto calling for its reform. Three other political and labor activists also were also arrested Wednesday and charged with sedition and other offenses related to a protest in July. Three more were apprehended on Thursday on charges linked to the same protest, according to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights.
Also Wednesday, about 400 high-school students wearing school uniforms with white ribbons, a symbol of the protest movement, joined in anti-government chants and gave three-fingered salutes, a sign of resistance borrowed from “The Hunger Games.” Some tied white bows to the gates of the ministry.
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