By Prachatai |
<p>In an aftershock from the 16 August mass protest in Bangkok, over 500 school students have protested against Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan and the prohibition against political expression in many schools.</p>
By Thammachart Kri-aksorn |
<p>Here is all you need to know about the Thai student protests. We have taken interesting questions and answered them below. This report will be constantly updated. Let us know via email if you want us to answer any other questions.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Students at Chulalongkorn University staged an anti-government protest on Friday (14 August) despite resistance from the university and heavy rain which forced them to find a new location. </p>
By Prachatai |
<p>On 13.00 - 15.00 of 14 August, three men with short hair claiming to be undercover police appeared in the vicinity of the Prachatai and Thai Volunteer Service offices.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>The Women for Freedom and Democracy group has set up a station at today's protest at the Democracy Monument for people to sign their petition calling for the decriminalization of abortion.</p>
<p>The demonstration is held by the Coordination Center of Students, Vocational students and People to Protect the Monarchy. Sumate Trakoolwoonnoo, a group representative said the purpose for this gathering is to protect the monarchy from being infringed, create an understanding to another upcoming protesters about the monarchy and to observe whether any infringement will be made or not.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Student activist Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak has been granted bail today (15 August) after being arrested the day before while travelling to a demonstration at the Nonthaburi Pier and accused of sedition and holding an illegal public assembly.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Pharit 'Penguin' Chiwarak a student activist is under arrest as he is planning to give a speech at a demonstration at Tha Nam Non, Nonthaburi. </p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Around 30-50 people demonstrated at Srinakharinwirot University’s Prasrarnmit campus for political reform to pave the way for a state welfare society that respects people as equals.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Students at Thammasat University’s Rangsit campus kept watch through the night around the Jpark student hall, after Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and Parit Chiwarak, leaders of the Student Union of Thailand (SUT), posted on their Facebook profile pages last night (12 August) that they were being stalked by plainclothes police officers and were concerned that they were about to be arrested.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Six people who participated in a demonstration at the Krue Se Mosque on 2 August have since been visited by police and military officers.</p>
By Prachatai |
<p>Thousands gathered at a demonstration at Thammasat University (TU) on 10 August. which underlined the demands from the Free People Movement and called for reform of the monarchy. TU claimed they had not been informed beforehand about the speeches about the monarchy. Over 110 lecturers countrywide supported the demonstrators’ expressed views and their bravery to speak about a sensitive issue in Thailand</p>