All 18 protesters were charged with sedition, while three leaders were also charged with insulting Thailand’s monarchy.
A Thai prosecutor has indicted 18 activists for their roles in anti-government rallies last year by a protest movement that has brought unprecedented challenges to the royal palace and military-dominated establishment.
The youth-led movement sprang up last year calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former army chief who led the 2014 coup, and the reform of the powerful Thai monarchy, breaking a longstanding taboo under the country’s lese majeste law.
Those indicted on Monday included three prominent leaders charged with sedition and lese majeste during rallies in September, where tens of thousands of people escalated calls for royal reforms.
The other 15 protesters face trial for sedition and breaching a ban on public…
