Police in Thailand have arrested a 30-year-old Australian man under the emergency decree used to end almost two months of Red Shirt protests in Bangkok.
He has been identified as as Conor David Purcell, an ex-soldier working in Bangkok as a language teacher.
Purcell was arrested at his apartment complex in the city on Sunday.
Thai authorities say he incited unrest while speaking from the stage of the Red Shirt protest camp on two occasions.
Bangkok's Kom Chad Luek newspaper is quoting police sources as saying he served for seven years in the Australian Army and had received sniper training. Link
