![]() ![]() ![]() In Thailand, five other student protesters were arrested Wednesday after raising the three-finger salute during a speech by Prayuth in the northeastern Khon Kaen region, a stronghold of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. It wasn’t clear if the postponement was connected with the film’s embrace by pro-democracy activists, but Chinese authorities have been engaged in a battle with Hong Kong protesters for more than a month. The Chinese government has also delayed release of “Mockingjay” in that country’s cinemas until next year, Variety reported earlier this week. Kittikorn Boonsom of the Bangkok Metropolitan Police was quoted as telling Agence France-Presse. The three arrested outside the Siam Paragon cinema were taken to an army camp for “attitude adjustment,” Col. Premieres of “Mockingjay” were canceled at two Bangkok cinemas on Thursday after student organizers bought up hundreds of tickets to give away and draw coup opponents together in symbolic protest. Frustrated by their inability to assemble and air their demands that democracy be restored, the mainly youthful opponents of the ruling junta have taken to symbolic expressions, like reading George Orwell’s totalitarian narrative “1984” in public or raising the salute against repression borrowed from fiction to protest reality. ![]()
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