{"id":10516,"date":"2021-03-24T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2021-03-23T21:24:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T01:24:51","slug":"thailand-cracks-down-on-continued-anti-government-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/03\/24\/thailand-cracks-down-on-continued-anti-government-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Cracks Down on Continued Anti-Government Protests\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Lauren-Marie Diawatan<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff Writer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 8, Thailand\u2019s Bangkok Criminal Court detained three pro-democracy activists\u00a0 on the charge of insulting the monarchy, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/03\/09\/thailand-activists-jailed-criticizing-monarchy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human Rights Watch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/3\/8\/thai-prosecutor-indicts-18-over-anti-government-protests\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> states \u00a0 that 15 other protesters were indicted over attending anti-government rallies on charges of sedition and disobeying a ban on public assemblies. The pro-democracy movement arose last year when youth protesters began demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha, who led the 2014 coup, and the reformation of the Thai monarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/3\/6\/hundreds-of-thai-protesters-rally-to-demand-leaders-release\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> furthers that demonstrators gathered in Bangkok demanding the release of some of the protest leaders on March 6. Protesters shouted for authorities to \u201crelease our friends\u201d as they surrounded a criminal court. Groups burned photographs of the king, chanting for the government to \u201cAbolish 112.\u201d Protesters accuse the prime minister of manipulating the 2019 election rules in his favor and feel that the current constitution gives the king too much power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The three leaders, Panusaya \u201cRung\u201d Sithijirawattanakul, Jatapuat \u201cPai\u201d Boonpattararaksa, and Panupong \u201cMike\u201d Jadnok, were charged with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lese majeste,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the insult of a monarch, for their speeches demanding monarchy reform at a rally on September 19, 2020. Their cases resemble the court decision to place four other pro-democracy activists in pretrial detention in February. Human Rights Watch explains that the court denied the activists\u2019 bail requests multiple times, despite Thailand\u2019s ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which allows bail requests or a faster trial for those denied bail. Jadnok felt his group and him were undeterred with being jailed, stating that their work was \u201conly the beginning,\u201d and that their cause would \u201cgo ahead even without us,\u201d Al Jazeera reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Article 112 outlines <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lese majeste<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/library.siam-legal.com\/thai-law\/criminal-code-royal-family-sections-107-112\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thailand\u2019s criminal code<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: whoever \u201cdefames, insults, or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent\u201d will face incarceration of three to 15 years. According to Al Jazeera, the deputy commissioner of Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau emphasized that \u201cprotests are illegal\u201d at a police conference, and anyone who participates or invites others to \u201cis breaking the law.\u201d In December 2020, a spokesperson for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26621&amp;LangID=E\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UN High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> called for Thailand to \u201cbring this law in line\u201d after Thai authorities charged 35 protesters, including a 16-year-old, under Article 112. The statement urges the country to stop using criminal charges against its citizens for \u201cexercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/08\/21\/904567683\/in-thailand-a-21-year-old-student-dares-to-tackle-a-taboo-subject\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NPR<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that activist leader Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul first spoke out against the monarchy in August 2020 as a student at Thammasat University, reading a manifesto calling for the reform of Thailand\u2019s monarchy. In an interview, she felt that \u201cthe monarchy has to be under law like everyone else in this country,\u201d stating that the manifesto was the \u201cfirst level\u201d to affect change in the country. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/11\/whats-happening-thailand-10-things\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amnesty International<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explains that protests began in early 2020 with university students and schoolchildren primarily leading the movement, organizing, and participating in protests. The main demands of the protesters include the dissolution of the parliament, the reformation of the\u00a0 monarchy, the revision of the military-centric constitution, and the end of intimidation and harassment tactics against those critical of the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">International students were warned against participating in protests or risk losing their visas, reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-thailand-university\/thai-university-warns-foreign-students-they-could-lose-visas-over-protests-idUSKBN2B11FK?il=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The day after Bangkok\u2019s Criminal Court order, the Asian Institute of Technology sent out an email, asking for students to \u201cbe respectful of the laws and policies of the host country Thailand.\u201d Despite the threats, foreign students have taken to the streets in protest of Thailand\u2019s government. While the institution claims it was passing on a request from the country\u2019s immigration bureau, the chief of the immigration office of the university\u2019s province explained no request was made concerning foreign students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 8, Thailand\u2019s Bangkok Criminal Court detained three pro-democracy activists\u00a0 on the charge of insulting the monarchy, according to Human Rights Watch. Al Jazeera states \u00a0 that 15 other protesters were indicted over attending anti-government rallies on charges of sedition and disobeying a ban on public assemblies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4929,"featured_media":10466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2153,2104,382,386],"tags":[430,893,900,1968,2174],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2021","category-2104","category-international-news","category-asia","tag-thailand","tag-election","tag-human-rights","tag-activist","tag-monarchy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thailand Cracks Down on Continued Anti-Government Protests\u00a0 - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/03\/24\/thailand-cracks-down-on-continued-anti-government-protests\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thailand Cracks Down on Continued Anti-Government Protests\u00a0 - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On March 8, Thailand\u2019s Bangkok Criminal Court detained three pro-democracy activists\u00a0 on the charge of insulting the monarchy, according to Human Rights Watch. 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