Thailand: What happened to mass anti-government protests?
20 May 2022 |
12:23 pm
In 2020, Thai youth sparked the largest wave of anti-government protests since the 2014 military coup. But human rights activists say persecutions and systematic harassment have weakened the pro-democracy movement.
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