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‘Tawan’ and ‘Bam’ hit the campaign trail

Activists who staged 52-day hunger strike out of hospital and quizzing parties about lese-majeste stand

An image from an audience video shows former hunger strikers Tantawan Tuatulanon (left) and Orawan Phuphong speaking with a supporter at a Move Forward Party rally in Bangkok on Friday evening.

Two young activists who staged a 52-day hunger strike to press for the release of political prisoners and abolition of the lese-majeste law have hit the campaign trail again, asking political parties to take a stand on the sensitive issue.

Tantawan Tuatulanon and Orawan Phuphong were discharged from Thammasat University Hospital on Thursday, 12 days after announcing the end of the hunger strike that had left…

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