Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an associate professor at Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Sending a man to a psychiatric hospital is no way to respond to reasonable protest

Protesters gather in front of the Democracy Monument on July 18: over 2,000 mostly young people called for constitutional changes, referencing Tiwagorn Vithiton: "Losing faith is not insanity." © AP
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an associate professor at Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.