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‘Tawan’ and ‘Bam’ hit the campaign trail

An image from an audience video shows former hunger strikers Tantawan Tuatulanon (left) and Orawan Phuphong speaking with a supporter at a Move Forward Party rally in Chon Buri on Friday evening.

Two young activists who staged a 52-day hunger strike to press for the release of political prisoners and abolition of the lese-majeste law have hit the campaign trail again, asking political parties to take a stand on the sensitive issue.

Tantawan Tuatulanon and Orawan Phuphong were discharged from Thammasat University Hospital on Thursday, 12 days after announcing the end of the hunger strike that had left them at severe risk of permanent damage to their health.

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