Anti-diploma presentation campaigners call off activities
Activists decry police security scanning of ID cards to flag personal information
A group that campaigned against accepting diplomas in a ceremony has called off its activities at Thammasat University after its documents and equipment were seized.
Supanat Kingkaew, a co-leader of the “Thammasat Graduates for the People” group, said on Saturday the university’s administration had seized 96 of 112 copies of its version of the diplomas issued by what it called the “University for the People and Politics”. The group had prepared to stage a parallel diploma handover ceremony…