October 22, 2020

Anna Murray 

After Prime Minister of Thailand, Prayuth Chan-ocha, confessed that using water cannon is not a right way to building up a better society and called on pro-democracy protesters to lower political tensions on October 21st, Thailand’s government on Thursday repealed a state of emergency for Thailand’s capital Bangkok, which had been announced last week to quell strong student-led protests looking for democracy reforms.

Tens of thousands of protesters have marched in streets of Bangkok and other cities over the last week with three demands “Resign, Rewrite, Reform.” In addition to asking for Prayut's resignation, they are appealing to bring the monarchy under the Constitution, which is extremely rare in Thailand.

The group requested the government to free arrested protesters in custody as well. According to Thai police, there have been 77 protesters caught in Bangkok since October 13th. However, based on the saying of Thai lawyers for Human rights, 87 people were apprehended across Thailand, with 81 prosecuted.

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