A 15-year-old girl held nearly two months earlier this year on suspicion of insulting the royal family this morning protested outside the elite Bangkok high school after saying it had expelled her.
Thanalop “Yok” Phalanchai this morning berated staff from outside the downtown Triam Udom Suksa campus after announcing that she had been expelled after fleeing a meeting with administrators who refused to let her call her parents – or leave.
The 15-year-old activist said last night that the school notified her of her expulsion after she escaped the meeting, which was apparently called after she dyed her hair in violation of the dress code.
“I felt suffocated and couldn’t bear it anymore, so I asked to leave,” she said on social media. “But the teacher prohibited it. They sat and blocked all the exits, so I couldn’t find a way out. There was a window…
