TU students pose with cutouts of dissidents
Protesters find new ways to make a statement outside contentious graduation ceremony
Some students at Thammasat University posed with cardboard cutouts of well-known critics of the monarchy on Saturday in a protest before a ceremony at which His Majesty the King was to present degrees.
Youth and student-led demonstrations that began in July by demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha and a new constitution are increasingly calling for curbs on royal powers, breaking a longstanding taboo.
ThaiPBS quoted a…