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Reuters Police on Wednesday arrested Chaiamorn “Ammy” Kaewwiboonpan, a Thai pop star-turned-activist, for allegedly burning a portrait of King Maha Vajiralongkorn in front of a jail during an anti-government protest over the weekend, police and a lawyers’ group said. Ammy, 32, was arrested at a rented house in Ayudhya, a province north of Bangkok, hours before dawn, metropolitan police said. He admitted to setting the fire in a social media post from a hospital room. “[Investigators] preliminarily charged him with arson of properties and are considering pressing a Lese-Majeste charge,” Lt. Gen. Pakpong Pongpetra, chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, told a press conference Wednesday, adding that the authorities have solid evidence against him.

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