ideo footage showed the crowd blocking the road outside a soy milk shop and waving placards with slogans such as “buffalo”, a slang word for stupidity.
Thailand has draconian lèse-majesté laws that impose stiff prison sentences for actions or writings regarded as derogatory toward the monarch or his family.
The operator of Thailand’s main cable TV network has blocked foreign news broadcasts deemed insensitive to the monarchy since Bhumibol’s death.