Thailand protests 2020

With street politics halted and parliamentary politics effectively on hold until the election, Thailand feels in limbo.

An exiled Thai professor talks about his campaign to abolish the controversial law, which criminalizes criticisms of the country's monarchy.

The Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity group, claims that at least 30 prominent activists had their devices infected with the spyware between October 2020 and November 2021.

The Thai Buddhist order has long helped to legitimize and prop up the prevailing monarchical order.

The results of the recent provincial elections hint at the possibility that some of demands of Thai protesters may be a hard sell outside big cities.

Online tools have been invaluable for Thailand's pro-democracy movement – but the government is cracking down.

The choice has prompted a debate as to whether the useof communist imagery will help or hinder the protesters' cause.

Renewed demands for equal rights from Thailand’s LGBT activists have accompanied the recent pro-democracy protests.

But making such support U.S. policy would undoubtedly create tensions between Washington and Bangkok.

Thousands of recently-created Twitter accounts beamed out royalist hashtags intended to counter rising online mockery of the monarchy.

This revival of lese-majeste law marks an escalation in the authorities’ campaign against rising pro-democracy protests.