The revolution will be stencilised: 'Thailand's Banksy' won't back down


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  • Saturday, 01 Aug 2020

A woman takes photo of paintings by a graffiti artist Headache Stencil during his exhibition at The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) in Bangkok, Thailand, July 31, 2020. Picture taken July 31, 2020. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai political street artist who goes by the name "Headache Stencil" prefers to keep his true identity anonymous, but he is pretty sure that authorities know where to find him.

Shortly after one of his latest public projections on the June 24, he noticed several men loitering outside his apartment. He says security at the building told him the men had identified themselves as plainclothes police.

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