Thai soldiers detain ex-minister as he emerges from hiding to decry coup


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  • Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Former Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang, who had been on the run after refusing to turn himself in to the military after being summoned, smiles as he talks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand in Bangkok May 27, 2014. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai soldiers burst into a journalists' club in Bangkok on Tuesday and detained a former minister in the government deposed by the army last week after he had denounced the coup as a disaster.

Former Education Minister Chaturon Chaisang had been on the run after refusing to turn himself in to the military after being summoned in the wake of the May 22 coup.

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