‘Bad student’ targets Prayut; protesters demand human rights in jail
The “Bad student" protest group declared on Thursday they plan to hold an anti-government rally on November 21 on a traffic island near Bangkok’s Democracy Monument. The exact time and location of the rally would be announced later, they said.
The group accused Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan of lacking maturity and leadership over his failure to respond to their calls during a rally outside the Education Ministry on September 5.
The group demanded that the ministry stop threatening students, cancel outdated regulations and reform education, or else Nataphol should resign.
"As the ministry failed to meet our demands, we will hold an anti-government rally on November 21 to put them to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha instead," said the group, which is drawn from about 50 educational institutes nationwide. They added that political problems were preventing education from being improved.
Meanwhile, another group of pro-democracy protesters led by former prisoner Ploy Dechwongsa gathered at the Central Women Correctional Institution in Bangkok's Chatuchak District, to demand that the Department of Corrections cancel what they said were outdated regulations that threaten human rights.
The protesters – former inmates, writers, doctors and academics – held up signs with the message "they can harm us just like that" and "release political prisoners".
