<p>The police arrested the owner of an apartment in Nonthaburi on Sunday morning (18 July), ahead of the protest in the afternoon, and confiscated effigies made for the protest march, while a van belonging to the We Volunteer protest guard group was searched.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The Khon Kaen Provincial Court has accepted a lèse-majesté case &nbsp;filed against Tiwagorn Withiton, a Facebook user whose picture wearing a shirt printed with &ldquo;I lost faith in the monarchy&rdquo; went viral in 2020.</p>

<p>12 pictures by Prachatai&#39;s field reporters during the protest at Sanam Luang on 20 March before the clash with crowd control police began.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Protesters returned to the Ratchaprasong intersection on Wednesday&nbsp;night (24 March) to call for reform and release of detained activists despite police violence at recent protests.</p>

<p>A protest took place at the Democracy Monument yesterday (13 February) to demand the release of four activists <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/9059">detained</a> last week pending trial, as well as demanding the resignation of the prime minister, a new constitution, and monarchy reform.</p>

<p>Matichon Online reported on 26 January that the Cabinet approved 191 million baht for Royal Thai Police crowd control operations, information that was not revealed in the Cabinet minutes. The police chief said in a press conference that it was the cost of crowd control for the protests in 2020.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/thailand">Thailand&rsquo;s&nbsp;</a>government in 2020 escalated its repression of basic rights in the face of a growing, youth-led democracy movement demanding political and constitutional reforms, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/01/13/thailand-rights-crisis-rapidly-worsens?fbclid=IwAR0r2vNVrc82Edi59BvBR96JO2LEOMd1KKSVvqHEkQsc5F7QuGQj9-OM1_8">Human Rights Watch</a> said on Wednesday (13 January) in its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021">World Report 2021</a>.</p>

<p>A protest took place in front of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS) on Thursday (10 December), which addressed issues of the rights of people with disabilities, including the right to receive state welfare.</p>

<p>Students at Chulalongkorn University staged an anti-government protest on Friday (14 August) despite resistance from the university and heavy rain which forced them to find a new location. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Students at Thammasat University&rsquo;s Rangsit campus kept watch through the night around the Jpark student hall, after Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and Parit Chiwarak, leaders of the Student Union of Thailand (SUT), posted on their Facebook profile pages last night (12 August) that they were being stalked by plainclothes police officers and were concerned that they were about to be arrested.</p>

<p>Six people who participated in a demonstration at the Krue Se Mosque on 2 August have since been visited by police and military officers.</p>