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title: "[Note: from 2016.] "In the past nine months, Thais have been charged…"
date: 2017-10-18
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# [Note: from 2016.] "In the past nine months, Thais have been charged…

*October 18, 2017 · Facebook*

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[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/30/thailand-thoughtcrime-arrests/85163714/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/30/thailand-thoughtcrime-arrests/85163714/){target="_blank"}
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\[Note: from 2016.\]\
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\"In the past nine months, Thais have been charged for clicking "like" on subversive Facebook memes. For handing flowers to an anti-junta activist. For allegedly insulting the king's pet dog.\
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Others have been detained simply for reading George Orwell's "1984" in public, or for raising three fingers, an anti-tyranny salute from the "Hunger Games" films.\
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Officers have even snatched up a man for eating a sandwich.\
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It was no ordinary sandwich, mind you. It was publicly declared a "sandwich for democracy," scarfed down by an anti-junta activist at a mall --- all while reading 1984. He was quickly surrounded by plainclothes officers.\
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"I am not a very brave person so, yes, I got kind of nervous and my hands were shaking," said the dissident sandwich eater, a 33-year-old nicknamed Champ. (He requested that his full name be omitted.)\"\
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[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/30/thailand-thoughtcrime-arrests/85163714/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/30/thailand-thoughtcrime-arrests/85163714/){target="_blank"}
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