Update 8.30pm: Songtham Kaewpanpruk, a pro-democracy activist, was assaulted at the BACC and now hospitalized at Hua Chiew Hospital. He was punched at the face and kicked at his chest.
Update 7.45pm: The police have detained about 20 activists after they gathered and about to commemorate the first anniversary of the coup.
The first arrest occurred about 6pm after a group of students gathered at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center (BACC), Siam Square. As about a hundred of police officers and about 20 plainclothes officers deployed the area, the students sat peacefully for a few minutes before the police arrested them.
Three of them are Natchacha Kongudom, a transgender student activist, arrested before for flashing three-fingered salute, an anti-coup symbol, Rangsiman Rome, a student activist from Thammasat University, and Puthida Chaianan.
They were taken to Pathumwan Police Station. The gathering at the BACC ended when large group of protesterd arrested.
On Friday morning, seven students from Dao Din group, based at Khon Kaen University in the North East, have been detained.
In the afternoon three activists from Resistence Citizen were arrested in Bangkok, but already released without charges.
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