The Aug. 7 submission will be the first run through Thais go to the surveys subsequent to the military seized power in a bloodless overthrow in May 2014. The decision junta has said the submission will make ready for a race one year from now.
Faultfinders, including major political gatherings, say the constitution will revere a political part for the military and debilitate regular citizen governments, declining the turmoil that has hit Thai legislative issues in the course of the most recent decade.
The four were kept in Thailand's western Ratchaburi area on Sunday, said police, after their autos were sought and duplicates of booklets giving data on the constitution were found.
The gathering had disregarded a law that conveys a 10-year correctional facility term for battling regarding the submission.
"They disregarded the Referendum Act," said Police Captain Poom Klaklaew, a police agent for the case.
With not exactly a month to go before the submission, the junta has taken what rights bunches say is a hardline position on any restriction to its arrangements and has banned all open discourse of the constitution.
Among those confined was a columnist from Thai online production Prachatai, Taweesak Kerdpoka, who joined three exercises to give an account of their exercises.
"Police found a couple duplicates of the booklet in his pack," said Kornkritch Somjittranukit, who works with Taweesak at Prachatai.
"He let them know it was material for his news report, yet they captured him in any case."
Colonel Winthai Suvaree, a junta representative, said the captures were a police matter.
"The police most likely didn't know who was who when they kept the gathering," Winthai told Reuters. "They weren't out to focus on the columnist."
The most recent captures took after the discharge a week ago by a military court of seven activists confined in June for crusading against the sanction.
(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Panarat Thepgumpanat and Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Editing by Richard Borsuk)
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