Thai PM says all laws to be used against protesters


  • World
  • Thursday, 19 Nov 2020

FILE PHOTO: Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha speaks on Thai Television pool in Bangkok, Thailand, October 21, 2020. Thailand Government House/Handout via REUTERS

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Thursday that all laws would be used against protesters who break them, as demonstrations escalate for his removal and for reforms to curb the powers of King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

Activists voiced concern that this could mean the resumption of prosecutions under some of the world's harshest royal insult laws.

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