A student-led protest in Thailand has defied a strict state of emergency order placed on gatherings as demonstrators demand the resignation of the country's prime minister among other reforms.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.BANGKOK -- Riot police in Thailand cracked down on thousands of student-led protesters who rallied Friday in the capital in defiance of a strict state of emergency, while the prime minister rejected calls for his resignation.
Police appeared to have assumed control of the rally site, and much of the crowd retreated down a street to nearby Chulalongkorn University, where some organizers advised them to shelter if they were not going directly home. A number of protest leaders have already been rounded up since the decree went into effect. On Friday another two activists were arrested under a law covering violence against the queen for their alleged part in the heckling of the motorcade. They could face up to life in prison if convicted.
Conservative royalist Thais accuse the protest movement of seeking to end the monarchy, an allegation its leaders deny. “Currently, one should understand that the country needs people who love the nation and love the monarchy,” the king said. Police on Friday went to search the offices of the Progressive Movement, a group formed by former lawmakers from a reform-minded political party that was controversially dissolved by the Constitutional Court.
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