A student stands next to a cardboard figure of Somsak Jeamteerasakul, an exiled Thai academic, before a graduation ceremony, which some students have boycotted because it is led by King Maha Vajiralongkorn, at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Some students at Thailand's Thammasat University posed with cardboard cutouts of well-known critics of the monarchy on Saturday in a protest as King Maha Vajiralongkorn was to present degrees amid growing calls for royal reform.
Youth and student-led demonstrations that began in July by demanding the ousting of former junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha as prime minister have increasingly called for curbs on the king's powers, breaking a longstanding taboo.
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