Thai ex-PM Thaksin begins first full day in prison

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Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling led to the 76-year-old former prime minister being held at Bangkok Remand Prison.   Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2025/09/10/thai-ex-pm-thaksin-begins-first-full-day-in-prison   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #ThaksinShinawatra #Prison #Thailand

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00:00Thailand's influential ex-Prime Minister Thakshin Shinawat began his first full day in prison after

00:13a court ruled that he had improperly served a previous jail term in hospital. Thakshin was

00:18elected Prime Minister in 2001 and again in 2005 and took himself into exile after his second term

00:25was cut short by a military coup. After returning in August 2023, he was sentenced to eight years

00:31for corruption and abuse of power. However, he never spent a night in a cell. He was whisked to

00:37a private hospital room, had his sentence reduced to one year by a royal pardon and was freed early

00:43under a release scheme for elderly prisoners. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the

00:49enforcement of his prison sentence was unlawful and that he had not been suffering from a critical

00:54emergency condition.

00:57Natasha Bust, FMT

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