BANGKOK (Reuters) - Lines of Thai riot police confronted anti-government protesters blocking the government's headquarters in Bangkok on Tuesday after authorities said they would renew an operation to retake several sites occupied by demonstrators for weeks.
Thai police on Sunday successfully pushed back a mob of angry demonstrators by using teargas and water cannon as they tried to force their way into the government headquarters in Bangkok. Meanwhile, the leader of the anti-government protests handed the prime minister an ultimatum, giving her two days to hand “power to the people”.
A Thai political activist has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in the latest in a series of convictions under the kingdom's controversial royal defamation laws.
BANGKOK — Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra came under fire from her own Twitter account on Sunday when it was briefly taken over by an anonymous hacker who accused her of incompetence.
