A student protester was slapped this afternoon at a luxury riverfront shopping mall by security guards for holding a sign criticizing the government.
A Thammasat University student later identified as Benja Apan was surrounded by at least six security guards outside the Iconsiam shopping mall at about 2:30pm after she held up a sign reading “You monopolized the vaccine so the monarchy could take the credit.”
A male guard in a grey jacket is shown in a video yanking the sign out from under her arm while she argues with another guard. He then approaches and pushes the camera away moments before a sharp slapping sound is heard and 21-year-old Benja screams “he slapped me!”
Benja shouts for help and asks the guards “what kind of right do they have to slap her” as seven or so men try to restrain her.
