Protests the Thai way: Pool ducks, Hunger Games salute & drag queens
Pork barbecue
In the midst of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters, one man made his own statement - with barbecued pork.
Joined by onlookers, he made an impromptu picnic on Wednesday night outside the Thai police headquarters as protesters splashed it with paint and sprayed graffiti nearby.
Eating grilled pork "mookata" has become loaded with symbolism in Thailand because of a pun used to mock an expression of praise for the monarchy.
Inflatable yellow pool ducks
Thai police have water cannon and teargas to fire at protesters. The answer: Inflatable yellow pool ducks.
Splash paints
Some protesters threw glass bottles and paint bombs over the walls of police HQ, which was barricaded with dumper trucks, concrete blocks and razor wire.
Others hurled paint at the outside walls, leaving them plastered with bright yellows and blues, while others used water pistols to squirt paint into the compound.
Cover monuments
A group of protesters could be seen carrying a blank banner earlier in the day from the Ministry of Education to the Democracy Monument, in the city centre, where they joined another group of demonstrators at an event with musicians and artists, before climbing the monument.
Protests with music festivals
Some 20 groups called the rally at Bangkok's Democracy Monument under the name "Mob Fest" as the latest in a series of protests calling for significant reforms in government.
Rainbow protest
Dozens of students rallied in Thailand on Wednesday to demand from the government greater gender rights and an end to what they called outdated curriculum and discriminatory rules on uniforms and haircuts.
Drag queens joins the protest
A group of drag queens raise their three fingers in solidarity with the protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha in Bangkok, Thailand.
Hunger games salute
Opponents of Thailand's military coup are risking arrest by flashing the three-finger salute from the Hunger Games movies,starring Jennifer Lawrence, to defy a junta that has banned all public protests.
The gesture has become the unofficial symbol of resistance against a military regime that has suspended democracy and severely curtailed freedom of expression.
"Showing three fingers has become a symbol to call for basic political rights in a country ruled by one person as if with the most sovereign power, who is General Prayut Chan-O-Cha," Sombat Boonngamanong, a prominent activist wanted by the junta, wrote on Facebook.
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