Police detain red-shirt activist, expat for selling t-shirts

Police on Tuesday detained a red-shirt activist and an expatriate for selling and buying campaign t-shirts to help Thai political prisoners. 
 
The police detained Anurak Jentawanit aka “Ford Red Route” and Franz Borbath, a red-shirt supporter from Austrai living in northeastern Mukdahan Province, at Ratchaprasong intersection for possession of t-shirts with a quotation of a poem by William Ernest Henley called Invictus. The message is “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
 
Police did not allow a lawyer to join the interrogation at Lumpini Police Station, saying that they have not been charged. 
 
In the evening, police searched Anurak’s house in Bangkok and confiscated 200 t-shirts, and confiscated 12 t-shirts which Borbath bought from Anurak in the morning. 
 
Both had to sign a document stating that they will not sell campaign t-shirts again. The police released them without charge.   
 
 
(Left) Anurak Jentawanit wears a t-shirt with the  message “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul" at Lumpini Police Station. (Right) Portrait of William Ernest Henley
 
 

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