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BANGKOK, July 21 — Thailand’s premier said today he was “worried” about a burgeoning student movement calling for the dissolution of his government, as pro-democracy protesters plot rallies and other creative displays of dissent across the kingdom. His comments come days after thousands of...

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha Prayut Chan-O-Cha, a former army chief, today defended keeping emergency laws in place in Thailand. — Reuters pic

The students displayed an organisational savvy inspired by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, and more than a dozen rallies are planned across the country in the coming week at local universities and city centres. But an unprecedented pandemic has launched the kingdom’s economy into a freefall, and anger is boiling against Prayut and his administration stacked with military and royalist allies.

They also called for the abolition of Thailand’s strict royal defamation law, which protects the monarchy and the unassailable King Maha Vajiralongkorn from criticism.

 

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