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Thai man arrested spraying graffiti on Grand Palace (Video)

A Thai man was arrested yesterday by police while he was spraying slogans on a wall of Bangkok’s Grand Palace. 

In an incident caught on film, police rushed to tackle the man as he was beginning to write a message in black spray paint on one of the city’s most-visited landmarks. He had already painted an anarchy symbol and the numerals “112,” which were crossed out in apparent protest to the royal defamation law. 

The 25-year-old suspect was identified by police only as Bang-ern. 

Update: Copycat anti-112 murals appear overnight in Bangkok

His graffiti seemed a likely protest against Section 112 of the Criminal Code, also known as lese majeste, which punishes any offense deemed to “defame, insult, or threaten” the monarchy with up to 15 years in prison per offense. The law, which had fallen out of favor, was brought back to arrest and charge…

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