{"id":23816,"date":"2020-10-15T08:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/thailand-uses-emergency-decree-to-ban-gatherings-after-bangkok-protests"},"modified":"2020-10-16T02:26:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:26:54","slug":"thailand-uses-emergency-decree-to-ban-gatherings-after-bangkok-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23816","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands defy ban to join pro-democracy protest in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government declares \u2018severe\u2019 state of emergency in Bangkok with protest leaders arrested<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands<strong> <\/strong>of people, including high-school students, gathered in Bangkok on Thursday, defying a ban announced as part of a crackdown on pro-democracy protests.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s prime minister declared a \u201csevere\u201d state of emergency in the capital overnight, as police arrested more than 20 people, including prominent student leaders who have called for monarchy reform. By Thursday afternoon, crowds ignored the ban to assemble at one of the city\u2019s busiest intersections, Ratchaprasong, where they chanted \u201crelease our friends\u201d and called police \u201cslaves of dictatorship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/thailand-uses-emergency-decree-to-ban-gatherings-after-bangkok-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government declares \u2018severe\u2019 state of emergency in Bangkok with protest leaders arrestedTens of thousands of people, including high-school students, gathered in Bangkok on Thursday, defying a ban announced as part of a crackdown on pro-democracy protes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23816\/revisions\/23842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}