Activists cover monument to protest law

Seeing red: Pro-democracy demonstrators taking part in a protest to demand the release of their leaders in Bangkok. — Reuters

Youth activists protesting against laws forbidding insult to Thailand’s powerful king briefly clashed with police after draping Bangkok’s Democracy Monument in red cloth.

Protesters threw paint at police and several small bangs were heard during a standoff near a city shrine after the demonstration had moved from Democracy Monument and the main leaders had called for it to disperse.