Somsak Jeamteerasakul

Asia Pacific Oct 31, 2020

Thai students pose with dissidents in graduation protest

Some students at Thailand's Thammasat University posed with cardboard cutouts of well-known critics of the monarchy on Saturday in a protest as King Maha Vajiralongkorn was to present degrees amid growing calls for royal reform. Youth and student-led demonstrations that began in July by demanding ...

Asia Pacific | FOCUS Sep 10, 2020

‘Illegal thoughts’: how some exiled critics of Thai king are fueling a revolt

by Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Kay Johnson

Protesters say writings and social media posts by the critics, including a Kyoto University professor, have helped to loosen the taboo on questioning the monarchy.