About 20,000 anti-government protesters spread across three different locations dispersed peacefully on Saturday night, after a day in which authorities tried and failed to stop them by shutting down Bangkok’s rail mass-transit system.
Police largely kept their distance, in contrast to their aggressive dispersal operation on Friday, but they did arrest one of the few protest leaders who had escaped their grasp so far. An undercover officer armed with a warrant was seen leading Panupong “Mike” Jadnok away around 9pm. It was reported that he was being taken to the Hua Mark police…