Pro-democracy protesters hold first 2021 rally


Strength in numbers: Hundreds of protesters demanding the release of pro-democracy activists during the rally in Bangkok. — AP

Pro-democracy protesters returned to the streets of Bangkok after nearly two months, clanging pots and pans – a tactic borrowed from mass rallies against a coup in neighbouring Myanmar.

Wednesday’s protest came a day after a court denied bail to four prominent democracy leaders who were charged under the kingdom’s draconian royal defamation laws.

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