18 members of the monarchy reform group Thaluwang have been summoned to acknowledge charges after a protest calling for the removal of national artist status from Senator and poet Naowarat Pongpaiboon.

A group of activists staged a protest at the Ministry of Culture on Sunday (6 August) to demand that Senator and poet Naowarat Pongpaiboon be removed from his position as a national artist for abstaining during the vote for Prime Minister.