BANGKOK — Five pro-democracy activists in Thailand were charged Wednesday with the rarely used criminal offense of attempting to harm the queen, over an encounter with a royal motorcade during a protest last year.
If convicted, the group could face the death penalty or life in prison under a law that has not been used for decades and punishes any “act of violence against the queen or her liberty.”
The incident came as thousands of protesters marched from the Democracy Monument to the Government House in Bangkok in October last year.
A motorcade ferrying Queen Suthida and Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti passed through the protest zone in the afternoon.
Some protesters crowde…
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