FM seeks release of Thai student detained by US Homeland Security
The Foreign Ministry is trying to obtain the release of an unnamed Thai university student being detained by the US Homeland Security Department after he sneaked in a law lecture on possession of weapons, the ministry's spokesman Tharit Charungvat said.
Tharit said the US authorities were concerned with his "suspicious behaviour" because the student was not enrolled in the class that discussed details of weapons possessions and legal matters. The US authorities were afraid that the student had attended to the class to find ways to obtain weapons. Suspicious behaviours among students in the US has reached an unprecedented height after Cho Seunghui, a Koreanborn student at the Virginia Tech University, had gunned down 32 students and college staff to death before killing himself in midApril, Tharit said. Tharit said the unnamed student was a PhD candidate at an Illinois university on a Thai government scholarship. He said the ministry has assigned the Thai Embassy in Washington, DC and the Thai Consulate General in Chicago to secure his release. The Nation
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