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Accused of Insulting Thailand’s King, Student Jailed for 50 Days Refuses to Eat

Quoted: “This is part of a broader process of the Thai state attempting to make the potential cost of dissent too high,” said Tyrell Haberkorn, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She said legal harassment and violence may succeed in fostering fear, “but the blatant display of injustice” could backfire by eliciting more sympathy for the protesters.