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Thailand's Prime Minister Signals Tougher Measures Against Anti-Government Protests

Pro-democracy protesters splash colored paint on the police headquarters sign in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday. Sakchai Lalit/AP hide caption

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Thailand's Prime Minister Signals Tougher Measures Against Anti-Government Protests

November 19, 2020 • Premier Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized power in a coup six years ago, issued a statement addressing months of unrest, promising to use "all" the country's laws to quash the protests.

Thailand's Prime Minister Signals Tougher Measures Against Anti-Government Protests

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In Thailand, A 21-Year-Old Student Dares To Tackle A Taboo Subject

Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, who read a politically charged manifesto at a rally last week, outside Thammasat University on Tuesday. Michael Sullivan/NPR hide caption

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In Thailand, A 21-Year-Old Student Dares To Tackle A Taboo Subject

August 21, 2020 • Last week, Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul took the stage at a rally to read a manifesto calling for reform of Thailand's politically powerful monarchy — a move that could land her in jail.

Thai Activists Stage Pro-Democracy Rally In Defiance Of Junta

September 19, 2015 • A few hundred activists from the New Democracy Movement marched through the streets of Bangkok calling for a restoration of elected government.

Officials: 'Highly Unlikely' Bangkok Bombing Was Work Of Foreign Terrorists

This image, released by the Royal Thai Police, shows a man near the Erawan shrine before an explosion occurred Monday in Bangkok. Authorities said Thursday he had been cleared. AP hide caption

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Officials: 'Highly Unlikely' Bangkok Bombing Was Work Of Foreign Terrorists

August 20, 2015 • Police say they've cleared a man who turned himself in after he was identified in a video leaving a backpack at the Erawan shrine moments before the explosion.

Thai Authorities Arrest Protesters On Anniversary Of 2014 Coup

Policemen face protesters during a protest in central Bangkok on Friday. Thai authorities detained dozens of activists protesting against military rule on the first anniversary of a coup against the elected government. Damir Sagolj/Reuters/Landov hide caption

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Thai Authorities Arrest Protesters On Anniversary Of 2014 Coup

May 22, 2015 • At least 13 people were arrested in the capital, Bangkok, and seven others in the country's northeast after they staged protests against Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha's rule.

Thai Ruler Says He's Prepared To End Martial Law

Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha attending the East Asia summit plenary session at Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, in November. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP hide caption

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Thai Ruler Says He's Prepared To End Martial Law

March 27, 2015 • Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized power last May, says he will lift martial law and replace it with a constitutional provision that gives him the very same powers.

Thailand Blocks Access To Damaging Human Rights Report

Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha speaks at a news conference after a Cabinet meeting at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, earlier this month. Rachen Sageansak/Xinhua/Landov hide caption

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Thailand Blocks Access To Damaging Human Rights Report

November 27, 2014 • U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said this week that six months after a coup toppled the country's elected government, the regime arrests its opponents and censors the media.