BANGKOK: Thai police Monday offered a financial reward to anyone providing photographic or video evidence to help them convict anti-coup protesters in an intensifying crackdown against critics of last month's military takeover.
In the latest strike on freedom of expression since the army seized power on May 22, a lone man reading George Orwell's anti-authoritarian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" while eating a sandwich was arrested Sunday outside a popular Bangkok shopping mall.
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