Graffiti artists last night took up the unfinished message of a protester arrested for spray painting protest messages on Bangkok’s Grand Palace.
Hours after a 25-year-old man was tackled by police as he painted graffiti opposing a law used to jail dissidents on the palace’s wall, pro-democracy group Thalugaz carried on the mural’s message elsewhere in Bangkok.
The graffiti replicated the letter “P,” the anarchy symbol, and the crossed-out numerals “112,” as painted by a man arrested by police along with a teen girl who this past October became the youngest person charged under the lese majeste law at 14.
The tweet showed photos of a road sign and utility box sprayed with the same slogans. It included the sentence, “You deleted it, but we can repaint it.”
The numerals “112” are a reference to Section 112 of the Criminal Code, which…
