Hundreds join protest against ban of opposition party in Thailand


Thai students and supporters holding candles during a protest against a court's decision that dissolved the country's second largest opposition Future Forward party, less than a year after an election to end direct military rule, at Thammasat University in Bangkok during the weekend. - Reuters

BANGKOK: Hundreds of students and supporters held a protest in Bangkok during the weekend against a court decision dissolving Thailand's second largest opposition party, less than a year after an election that ended direct military rule.

The Constitutional Court on Friday disbanded the upstart Future Forward Party, which won more than 6 million votes last year and came in third, for taking loans from its founder.

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