Thread by @prachatai_en, Student activists Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and Parit Chiwarak have posted on their Facebook [...]

Student activists Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and Parit Chiwarak have posted on their Facebook pages that there are plainclothes officers waiting around their residence, causing concern that they are about to be arrested.

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At the Thammasat University demonstration on 10 August, Panusaya read out the organisers’ statement calling for monarchy reform, while insisting that their demands are made in good faith and they are not intending to topple the monarchy.

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Both Panusaya and Parit are on a list of activists being targeted for arrest alongside human rights lawyer Anon Nampa and student activist Panupong Jadnok after they took part in the mass protest at the Democracy Monument on 18 July.

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They were also accused of violating the Emergency Decree for organizing a demonstration demanding justice for missing activist in exile Wanchalearm Satsaksit, which they did not acknowledge.

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They were also accused of violating the Cleanliness Act from their white ribbon campaign to protest against Wanchalearm’s abduction.

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Panusaya tweeted that “I stand by the principle that what I said is something that we should have been able to do for a long time now, but we haven’t been able to do because we have always been oppressed by power.

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"Whatever happen, I ask everyone not to get demoralized. The limit that used to press down on us, I have already pushed it out for you. I ask everyone to take advantage of this and keep on fighting for all of our future.”

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Meanwhile, the hashtag #SavePanusaya is taking first place on Twitter’s Thailand trend as netizens show their support, while Panusaya asked everyone to use #FightWithPanusaya instead.

Thammasat University Student Union posted on their Facebook page that student security officers have gone to the student hall where Panusaya and Parit are staying.

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Thammasat Student Union also warned other students to stay in their rooms and not approach the hall's parking area.
At 00.22, they posted that plainclothes police officers were seen around an overpass near TU Dome, one of the student halls.

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1.25
A Prachatai reporter now in the field at the JPark student hall that there has been no movement, and that there are around 10 students standing guard around the area.

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Meanwhile, the Thammasat University Student Union said that university officials are now at the scene and that people suspected to be plainclothes officers are still seen around the area.

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They said earlier that Panusaya is with friends, as well as security volunteers from the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration, the group which organised the protest on Monday, and that other nearby students are watching out for officers.

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1.40
Prachatai contacted the Khlong Luang Police Station and was told that they are not aware and have not been notified of the situation.

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1.55
Totsaporn, one of the 31 activists possibly targeted for arrest due to his role in the 18 July mass protest, told Prachatai that a group of unidentified people came by his residence asking after him and showing his neighbours his picture.

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Totsaporn also said that his friend told him that a group of people without uniform but with police officer's haircut have been driving past his apartment building for the past few days.

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They also asked the apartment security guard to check inside the building and took pictures of the CCTC camera.

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7.30
After potential police presence caused concern that two students activists are about to be arrested, around 20 - 30 students kept watch through the night around the student hall, with some also staying with Panusaya and Parit in their rooms.
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Panusaya has already left the student hall and gone to class. According to a recommendation by a lawyers from Thai Lawyers for Human Rights ( @TLHR2014), Panusaya will be traveling to class with other students, who will be with her at all times.

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Panusaya said that she believes that what she did was within the bounds of the freedom we should have, so she has to get over fear and live as normal.

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If she is arrested, Panusaya she will be seeking bail, but if the court forbids her from speaking or joining a political activity, she will not accept bail granted with those conditions.

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Panusaya’s lawyer has explained her rights to her in case she is arrested, telling her that officers need to have an arrest warrant.

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If she is in a building, they will also need a search warrant that clear specify the location they are searching. The name of the officers who are arresting her will also need to match the name of the officers on the warrant.

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If there is an arrest, the lawyer said that the officers will have to inform her of the charges she is arrested for, and cannot take her to be held at any other place but the police station where the case was filed.

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They also cannot confiscate her mobile devices if she is not being charged under the Computer Crimes Act.

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Human Rights Watch’s Asia Senior Researcher Sunai Phasuk also came to monitor the situation.

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