Australian officials are due to visit an Australian man in the next few days who is behind bars in Thailand for allegedly violating an emergency decree.
Connor David Purcell could face up to two years in prison for his alleged activities during the recent unrest which paralysed Bangkok.
Purcell was sentenced to a two-month suspended jail sentence on Monday, but was then arrested again for violating the emergency decree imposed during violent demonstrations in the Thai capital.
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An ex-soldier working in Bangkok as a language teacher, Purcell was arrested at his apartment complex in the city on Sunday.
Thai Police arrested the Australian man under the emergency decree used to end almost two months of Red Shirt protests in Bangkok, the ABC reports.
Thai authorities say he incited unrest while speaking from the stage of the Red Shirt protest camp on two occasions. Believed to be 30, Purcell claims to be a former Australian reservist, who has said his speeches to the crowds in central Bangkok, and translated into Thai by protest leaders, were aimed at trying to keep the world informed.
Purcell a regular speaker at anti-government rallies in Bangkok said he had been radicalised by an April 10 clash between the Thai military and demonstrators.
The English language Bangkok Post, previously reported, quoting an embassy source, that Purcell's behaviour and public statements were disturbing and he had been advised to return to Australia.
Purcell also claims to have a university degree from Western Australia and says he is an admirer of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
