BANGKOK — Sureerat Chiwarak sat with calm resolve in front of a Bangkok court as her head was shaved in a protest to support her activist son, jailed for weeks without bail on criminal charges of insulting Thailand’s powerful king.
It was a moment the 51-year-old business consultant had never foreseen, but she felt desperate to do something after her son, student protest leader Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak, 22, was taken to hospital after nearly eight weeks of hunger strike.
“My son is dying and I can’t do anything about it. It’s a terrible feeling. The people in power are letting my son die,” Sureerat told Reuters in an interview.
“The head shaving was just a start. It’s the …
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