Thailand’s army is detaining former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, cabinet members and anti-government protest leaders for up to a week to give them “time to think”.

Ousted members of Thailand’s former government have turned themselves in to the country’s new military junta, as soldiers forcefully dispersed hundreds of anti-coup activists who defied a ban on large-scale gatherings.

Thailand’s ruling military has summoned the entire ousted government and members of the politically influential family at the heart of the country’s long-running conflict.

Thailand’s army has declared martial law, intensifying the turbulent nation’s deepening political crisis but denying a coup d’etat was under way.