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Man charged after painting protest message on Wat Phra Kaew wall

Two police rush to arrest a young man using black paint to write and then cross out the number 112 on the wall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, or Wat Phra Kaew, in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district on Tuesday evening. (Capture from video)

A 24-year-old man arrested for spray-painting the number 112 on the wall of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok on Tuesday evening has been hit with police charges carrying up to seven years in prison.

The number 112 is used by protesters in referring to Section 112 of the Criminal Code, the lese majeste law under which many of them have been charged and they want revoked.

Suttawee Soikham, a native of Khon Kaen, was seen by two police officers about 5.40pm using black spray to paint…

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