The Thai police detained seven student activists after failing to force a member of the activist group to remove a t-shirt with a message saying ‘vote no’ in the draft charter referendum. At least five police officers in uniform and plainclothes on Tuesday afternoon, 5 July 2016, detained seven students of an activist group called the Association of Students for Society from Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok.

Thai authorities carried out a massive search of student dormitories around Ramkhamhaeng University, an open university in Bangkok with large population of Muslim students from Southern Thailand.