But in recent months leaders of the pro-democracy movement have called for reforms to the monarchy – including for the law's abolition – a move that has sent shockwaves through Thai society.
They have led dozens of protests since July, the largest drawing tens of thousands supporting their demands.for a rewrite of the military-scripted constitution and the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, a former army chief who came to power in a coup in 2014. "I stand on our ideology…we will not be bound by the dictatorship and we do not accept section 112 as a law," he said.
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