BANGKOK, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of copies of a politically-motivated letter have been mysteriously mailed to villagers in northern Thailand, urging the recipients to vote down a draft constitution in next month's public referendum, police said on Wednesday.
Thousands of copies of the letter bearing the state garuda seal in one corner of the white envelopes have been seized by the authorities from roadside mail boxes in Chiang Mai and Lampang provinces in northern Thailand since Tuesday but many others may already have reached the addressees, the police said.
They were addressed to villagers in Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Lampang without the name of the recipients or the name of the unknown sender who is yet to be arrested on charges of breaching the Referendum Act of 2016, which prohibits the dissemination of any information with content against the draft charter or the nationwide referendum, scheduled for Aug. 7, the police said.
Those constituents who may already have received the mysterious letter were told by the authorities to keep the copies to themselves and to never relay them to anybody else otherwise they might be as well charged with violation of the Referendum Act.
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