With a background in student activism at Thammasat University, Rangsiman Rome has come under the public spotlight after becoming one of the leading figures railing against the powerful regime following the 2014 military coup.
On the night of May 22, 2014, when the coup took place, Mr Rangsiman and his friends agreed that something must be done to oppose the putsch.
He and about 50 others from Thammasat University's Tha Prachan Campus took to the streets the following day with the intention of marching to the Democracy Monument on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, but their effort was curtailed due to the threat of clashes with demonstrators from the defunct People's Democratic Reform Committee, who were already entrenched at the monument.
