Thailand: police charge eight-year-olds with obstruction in run-up to referendum

Children who tore down voter lists because they liked the pink paper charged by authorities as tensions mounts in weeks before controversial vote Two eight-year-old girls have been charged in Thailand for tearing down voter lists for a controversial upcoming referendum, as the ruling junta goes to increasingly bizarre lengths to muzzle dissent. The junta is determined to see its draft constitution passed in the referendum on 7 August and has outlawed critical discussion of the document with a 10...