Pro-democracy students participate in a three-fingers salute marathon from 8 am to 8 pm during a rally near the Democracy monument in Bangkok, Thailand, August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police arrested a student leader on Tuesday as part of a continued crackdown against political activists who helped organize an anti-government protest in July, a police officer told Reuters.
Jutatip Sirikhan, 21, the president of the Student Union of Thailand, was arrested by a plain-cloth police officer while she was in a taxi traveling to a university in Bangkok, a video shot by Jutatip and posted on her personal Facebook page showed.
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