Faiyen (literally: Cool Fire) established in 2011 under the lead of Wat Wanlayangkoon, a Thai renown Sriburapha Award's writer.
[2] According to Port, the guitarist, the group officially debuted on 31 December 2011, they played in front of Bangkok Remand Prison for the countdown event.
The name 'Faiyen' means 'sparkler', a handheld firework, symbolizes the group’s objective of using music to immerse Thai people into more critical thinkings.
[4] They participated in pro-democracy movement with United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) that has become well-known to the red shirts and people who are critical of the monarchy.
[9] In 2016, still in Bangkok, Port went to perform and sell CDs of Faiyen songs at the event 'August 7 Marking Democracy: Music Poetry Art.'
[10] In July 2017, Wuthipong 'Kotee' Kochathamakun, a Red Shirt activist, was abducted in Vientiane, Laos, by 10 Thai-speaking armed men and was presumed dead.
On 11 December, two of his aides, Chatchan "Phoo Chana" Boonphawal and Kraidet "Kasalong" Luelert, also in exile in Vientiane, they too disappeared and were found dead a month later along the Thai side of the Mekong.
[11] On the same day, Faiyen received the same warning from Laos police who looks after them as Surachai’s group, telling them to hide while Prayut Chan-o-cha was visiting the country.
[14] On 3 August 2019, feared being kidnapped or killed, Khunthong, Jom, Yam, and Tito arrived in France from Laos on exile, after accepted as political refugees.
[15][16] It took them about two to three months before they were granted permission to travel to Paris, unable to act immediately, because they did not have enough money to buy plane tickets.
On 5 March 2021, Port who was getting treatment for pancreatitis, diabetes, and peripheral neuropathy in Thailand was arrested by Royal Thai Police on lèse majesté in his hometown neighborhood Udom Suk, Bangkok.
It names lèse majesté prisoners such as Da Torpedo, Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, Surachai Danwattananusorn, and Ampon Tangnoppakul, who were repeatedly denied bail.