A 14-year-old charged with insulting the king. A 13-year-old physically dragged out of a restaurant by police officers. A 17-year-old shot with rubber bullets and beaten.
These are among the stories revealed in a new report from Amnesty International, which documents alleged human rights violations in connection to children participating in Thailand’s long-running protests and was released on Wednesday.
Sainam, who had previously been shot with rubber-coated bullets, was a regular fixture at the pro-democracy protests, but the then 17-year-old had planned to skip the demonstration on the day of his arrest in 2021.
Then he saw his friend had been injured.
“I saw my friend get shot in the news, so I went there to see my friend and when I got there it was chaotic, and the police ran and tried to catch anybody who was there,” Sainam told Al Jazeera.
“So, I ran and they shot me in…
