article_snippet.sent: Bangkok (CNN)Thailand has lifted martial law, replacing it with it a controversial new security order granting sweeping powers to the military junta.
article_snippet.sent: Martial law was lifted Wednesday when the Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej approved a request from Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha to proceed.
article_snippet.sent: Normally I would warmly welcome the lifting of martial law -- and indeed strongly advocated for the lifting of martial law to be lifted in Thailand," the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said.
article_snippet.sent: Martial law was imposed shortly before Thailand's military seized power last May, ousting the democratically-elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra after months of sometimes violent street protests.
article_snippet.sent: Everyone knows in Thailand Everyone had to abolish martial law because of international pressure.
article_snippet.sent: Thailand's military rulers have insisted that such restrictive measures are needed to maintain stability, following a decade of political conflict which has pitted a royalist, middle-class Bangkok elite against Shinawatra's supporters, mostly drawn from the urban working class or the rural north.
highlights_snippet.sent: Martial law has been lifted in Thailand after 10 months .
  