Parit, who was arrested in mid-August and released on bail, faces 18 charges so far, everything from violating cleanliness laws to sedition. He is aware of the consequences of his activism, he said, and doesn’t fear persecution — only sometimes reminiscing of the days he spent poring over archived records of the ancient Lan Na kingdom in northern Thailand, what he describes as a bit of an obsession, and dreaming of his alternate life as a historian.
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