With the parliament this week set to deliberate on motions seeking amendments to the constitution, key protest organizer Free Youth announced that on Tuesday it will hold a “big protest” to put pressure on lawmakers to pass people-oriented charter amendment drafts.
“Come together at the Sappaya-Sapasathan [new parliament of Thailand] from 3pm onwards until the dictators’ slaves concede in amending the people-oriented amendment and bringing down the monarch to be underneath the constitution,” wrote Free Youth in an announcement.
The parliament will return with a two-day session, Tuesday and Wednesday, to decide seven charter amendment drafts. Among the seven, six were proposed separately by coalition parties and oppositions.
The seventh draft, proposed by human rights advocacy group Internet Law Reform Dialogue (iLaw) and has amassed more than 100,000…
