00:00Thailand's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra must
00:07serve one year in jail because his detention in a VIP wing of a hospital in lieu of prison
00:13was unlawful, in another major blow for a powerful family that has dominated politics
00:18for two decades.
00:20The judges said Thaksin did not have severe illness and his hospitalization could not
00:25be counted as time served, adding that the responsibility did not solely lie with the doctors and that
00:31the polarizing billionaire intentionally prolonged his hospital stay.
00:55The people who have been willing to feel good, the parents and the parents are now.
01:01I am the one who has a very strong father, but I feel that the parents have been able to
01:11have a lot of problems in the world, not the ones who have a lot of benefits in the world.
01:21On return from 15 years of self-imposed exile in 2023, Thaxon spent only a few hours in prison
01:28before being transferred to hospital complaining of heart trouble and chest pains,
01:33prompting widespread skepticism and public outrage.
01:37His eight-year sentence for conflicts of interest and abuse of power
01:41was commuted to one year by the king, and Thaxon was released on parole after just six months,
01:47the entirety of which he had spent in the VIP wing of a hospital.
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