Pro-election demonstration leaders Sirawit Serithiwat, in white T-shirt, and Rangsiman Rome, in black T-shirt, at the Chanasongkhram police station in Bangkok after their surrender on Tuesday. (Photo by Amornthep Chotechalermpong)Police on Wednesday postponed the first court appearance of 15 arrested pro-election demonstrators until Thursday, to allow further interrogations, amid calls for their immediate release. The demonstrators were held at Chanasongkhram and Phaya Thai police stations in Bangkok on Tuesday night after being arrested earlier in the day when police stopped a protest march to Government House.. Demonstrators demanded the general election be held this November, as earlier scheduled, and the NCPO be dissolved. She said police pressed charges against the demonstrators in accordance with the law, and their cases were being handled by the justice system.

Source: Bangkok Post May 23, 2018 10:18 UTC