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Thai Pro-Democracy Protesters Return to Streets Calling for Royal Reforms

Agence France-Presse

   Thai pro-democracy protesters scaled a massive Bangkok monument
   Saturday, draping it in a crimson cloth and calling for the kingdom to
   abolish its draconian royal defamation laws.

   Momentum for the youth-led movement calling for an overhaul to Premier
   Prayut Chan-O-Cha's government has slowed in recent months, due to a
   fresh wave of coronavirus infections in Thailand.

   But the recent detention of four prominent leaders has spurred
   protesters into action, bringing hundreds back to the Democracy
   Monument intersection in Bangkok's historic quarter -- under the close
   watch of scores of riot police.

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