Update: At 7.40pm, the eight student activists were released with no charge, but were forced to sign the military-drafted agreement that they will stop political activities.
Eight student activists, including the student who was arrested for flashing the anti-coup three fingered salute at the Hunger Games 3 Premiere last week, were arrested after they distributed the anti-coup leaflets at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan campus.
Most of the students are from the League of Liberal Thammasat for Democracy. Natchacha Kongudom, a Bangkok University student, who was arrested on Thursday also joined them.
At press time, the police took them to Chanasongkram Police Station.
On the leaflet is a poem by Chit Phumisak, the late Thai poet and communist rebel, reads "In an era of darkness, rule is by the gun, but people will still be people." The poem has become a talk of the town recently after Somak Jeamteerasakul, Thammasat historian, who now lives in self-exile in France, features the poem on his Facebook cover.
Prachatai will report more details soon.
