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<div> <div>The military at 10 am on Thursday released the five student activists from Khon Kaen University with no charge.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Since Wednesday the military has tried to force the group to sign a document stating that they admit their wrongdoing in protesting against the coup and promising not to hold any further political activities, according to Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, a fifth year law student who is one of the five.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>On Thursday two students complied while three others refused to sign the document.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div p> </div></div>
<div> <div>After five student activists from Khon Kaen University were arrested on Wednesday morning for flashing a three-fingered salute, a group of 11 student activists from Bangkok’s Thammasat University organized a supper at the Democracy Monument to show support for their fellow student activists, which led to their arrest late on Wednesday night.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>After they were detained for about four hours, the police released them before midnight without charge.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><img alt="" /> </div>
<div><span>Prachatai interviewed one of the five student activist, on their goal of holding the activity, experience in the camp and will he 'surrender' this morning. If he does not admit of his 'guilt' for protesting against the coup, he may be fired from university.</span></div> <div> </div>
<div> <div><em>Update: At around 6.30 pm, the military released the five activists but demanded them to come back with their parents and will officially charged them on Thursday. During the interogation, the military pressured the students to sign a document, stating that they will not hold any anti-coup activity nor expressing disaproval on the coup again. </em></div></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em>Update: Police at Prathumwan Police Station fined the two student activists from Chulalongkorn University -- Nattisa Pattamapornpong, from Faculty of Education, and Thapakorn Kaewlangka, from Faculty of Engineering, 1,000 baht each for violating Article 10 of the Cleanliness and Order Act.</em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>After police last week charged and fined three anti-coup student activists with littering after they held a commemoration of the 2006 coup, two more student activists have been summoned to hear charges related to the event.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp; </div>
<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In a bid to threaten anti-coup activists, the police on Thursday summoned three student activists after they commemorated the 2006 coup d’état on 19 September and charged them with littering a pedestrian bridge. </div></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div> <div> <div>The military on Monday evening released Nanthapong Bunpong, a student activist from Mahasarakham University in northeastern Maha Sarakham Province, after detaining him for four days.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This was the second time Nanthapong was ordered to report to the military authorities.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>At 1 pm on Friday, the student activist reported to the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Maha Sarakham Headquarters, Maha Sarakham Governmental Complex, and was arrested.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <p> </p>
<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Nanthapong Bunpong, a student activist from Mahasarakham University in northeastern Maha Sarakham Province, has been detained by the military for 24 hours. His fate is completely unknown to friends and family.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>According to the Thai Student Centre for Democracy, this is the second time that Nanthapong was ordered to report to the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). </div></div>
<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Contrary to what the junta has tried to claim, that all detainees were treated very well while in their custody, other than being deprived of their freedom, the first account of degrading treatment of anti-coup protesters by the military has been revealed.</div> <div> </div>
<div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The military on Friday summoned student activists from Khon Kaen University, in northeastern Khon Kaen Province, to have them sign an agreement to stop anti-coup activities.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In the North East, the junta has kept a close watch on universities, such as Maha Sarakham and Ubon Ratchathani. </div></div>