The demonstration was led by the Free Youth, a student protest group demanding Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's resignation over his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Often tearful, sometimes profane, the officers called the rioters "terrorists" engaged in an "attempted coup".
The jailings come exactly two years after a gang of men dressed in white and wielding sticks attacked protesters returning from a rally at the height of anti-Beijing protests in 2019.
The casualty count comes after several days of heavy gunfire forced some capital residents fleeing their homes and snarled traffic in several neighborhoods.
The arrested people, including six students, were attempting to make the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in a homemade laboratory at a hostel, police said.
Chow was released from prison after serving nearly seven months for her role in an unauthorised assembly during anti-government protests in the city in 2019.
Minnesota prosecutors call 45-year-old former police officer Derek Chauvin’s actions in the May 25, 2020 death cruel and an “egregious abuse” of his position.
Houston police are expected to offer more details on how they found the tiger at a news conference later Saturday evening.
Police say the shooting appeared to be a"targeted event not a random shooting", and the intended target was an employee who was not there at the time but the gunman decided to shoot some of their friends or acquaintances.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a sweeping investigation into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 killing of the Black woman in a botched police raid.
Spain’s politics turn nasty as Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and leader of left-wing Unidas Podemos party Pablo Iglesias get threatening letters called into question by Vox Party Madrid leader Rocio Monasterio.
Footage of two cops detaining Virginia National Guard’s Lieutenant Caron Nazario at gunpoint and pepper-spraying him in the face during a violent traffic stop comes as police face multiple allegations of racism and misconduct.
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