Thai protesters accuse authorities of abduction, intimidation

Volunteer guards of the anti-government protest movement scuffle with police officers at the Khlong Luang police station in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Monday they were investigating a complaint by a political activist who said he had been abducted by a group of unknown men and then questioned inside a van for 12 hours before being dumped on the street.

Mongkol Santimetakul, 25, a volunteer guard for the protest movement, said at around 11 p.m. on Saturday on a street near his home in a province south of Bangkok he was bundled into a van by the men who placed a hood over his head and confiscated his phone.