Thailand’s warning to Joshua Wong: video speech will be cut off if you criticise Beijing or reveal details of detention
Video call would be cut off if he talked about detention in Bangkok, incited Thai people or criticised Beijing, according to report in local paper
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In a front-page article on the Bangkok Post website, Wong was said to have been told by Thai officials that he could not share details of his detention or make negative comments about Beijing, or the video connection would be cut.
The article said Wong in the end “agreed” to talk only about his personal life and what political changes Hong Kong went through after the handover, as well as the Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in 2014, in which he played an integral part.
The forum, titled “October 6: Chula looks to the future”, was part of Chulalongkorn University’s commemoration of a deadly massacre of student protesters 40 years ago.
Thai immigration officials stopped Wong on arrival at Suvarnabhumi Airport late Tuesday evening before detaining him in a holding cell and putting him back on a flight to Hong Kong 12 hours later.