Thaksin: Former Thai PM's prison sentence reduced to a year

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Thailand's King has reduced the eight-year prison sentence of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to a year.

Mr Thaksin, who returned home last month after 15 years of self-imposed exile, was immediately sent to jail.

He was then moved to the luxury wing of a state hospital after complaining of heart problems.

Mr Thaksin has always said the outstanding sentences, over charges of corruption and abuse of power, were politically motivated.

Deposed by a military coup in 2006, Mr Thaksin, one of Thailand's most influential and polarising personalities, left the country two years later to avoid a prison sentence.

His return on 22 August was assumed to be part of a wider political deal. And it was one that was meant to bring his popular Pheu Thai party together with its one-time adversaries in a compromise government.

 

And it did that. Hours after he arrived, a new coalition government, led by Pheu Thai, voted its candidate Srettha Thavisin as the new PM. The coalition includes Mr Thaksin's former military rivals who deposed his party in 2014 in a coup.

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Mr Thaksin clearly hoped for leniency as a part of that deal, and King Vajiralongkorn has responded quickly to his request for a pardon, reducing his eight-year sentence to just one. Mr Thaksin is likely to stay in hospital.

In response to his request for a royal pardon, the royal gazette on Friday noted his age and "illness". It added that Mr Thaksin "has done good for the country and people and is loyal to the monarchy".

 

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[Gaccha]

And there it is.

[jvs]

No surprise at all!

Deal was done before he even got here other wise he would never have

come back.

Rest of the year confined to his local luxury residence?

Not as a privilege but for health reason of course.

And out for the occasional golf game .

[transam]

1 minute ago, jvs said:

No surprise at all!

Deal was done before he even got here other wise he would never have

come back.

Rest of the year confined to his local luxury residence?

Not as a privilege but for health reason of course.

And out for the occasional golf game .

Correct & probably..................????

[Pouatchee]

????

[arithai12]

I came here to read @OneMoreFarang... I hope he is ok.

[bang saen guy]

I suppose probabation is next. Maybe too shameful to let him off with nothing

[Adumbration]

Sigh...

[david555]

11 minutes ago, arithai12 said:

I came here to read @OneMoreFarang... I hope he is ok.

He only need just to go Ly down a while ....and take a tranquilizer pill .... and he shall be O.K.

 

[bannork]

Oh dear, what are the right wing royalists led by the good doctor from Phitsanulok, going to do now? Didn't they launch a petition, claiming Thaksin committed lese majeste in 2015?

[OneMoreFarang]

13 minutes ago, arithai12 said:

I came here to read @OneMoreFarang... I hope he is ok.

Thanks. Every day Thaksin is in jail is a good day. 

And even if he is in a luxury hospital, it's still considered jail. There are lots of restrictions for him.

I am sure it's a big difference compared to luxury life in the desert.

I hope he really has to stay that year in "jail". Let's see.

 

[bristolgeoff]

Thanks everyone who helped me,i will not forget anyone.Christmas card in the post for all of you

[bannork]

4 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Thanks. Every day Thaksin is in jail is a good day. 

And even if he is in a luxury hospital, it's still considered jail. There are lots of restrictions for him.

I am sure it's a big difference compared to luxury life in the desert.

I hope he really has to stay that year in "jail". Let's see.

 

A third will be knocked off for good behaviour. Been there 10 days already 

[transam]

Bet the Red Bull bloke is rubbing his hands............????

[george]

Royal Pardon, here in Thai script:

[david555]

8 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Thanks. Every day Thaksin is in jail is a good day. 

And even if he is in a luxury hospital, it's still considered jail. There are lots of restrictions for him.

I am sure it's a big difference compared to luxury life in the desert.

I hope he really has to stay that year in "jail". Let's see.

 

I am sure this is seeing as reduced jail time to 1 year ....., so when he has done a certain %  of that year  the complete pardon could be given as the rule is ....(?)

( i could be wrong , but i think it goes in steps from now.....)

 

Last step  might be .....PM again ?

[OneMoreFarang]

1 minute ago, david555 said:

Last step  might be .....PM again ?

It seems the number of people who vote for his party is rapidly going down.

So sad. ???? 

[david555]

14 minutes ago, transam said:

Bet the Red Bull bloke is rubbing his hands............????

 and i am sure the north East is lighting up on candles on a certain high persons portrait ...... and this one so winning thousands of harts now....

a win / win situation

[dinsdale]

It will not be a year and it will not be jail. Deal has now been done. There will be no change to 112 and a new constitution will be put off for as long as possible.

[david555]

5 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It seems the number of people who vote for his party is rapidly going down.

So sad. ???? 

You are missing the point once more ....it is not only "Mark" who had a "Teflon coating " .....

A "Teflon Thaksin" exist to ☺️

 

Good to see you take it as a man

[SuperSaiyan]

10 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Deal has now been done.

 

The deal was done before arrival.

[MurakamiX]

Thailand again makes itself the laughing stock of the modern world. 

[Clarkey611]

Johnny Covid has been knocked off the front page? Wow!

[BestB]

To me it does not sound like the deal he made and agreed to.

 

if I had to guess, trouble is yet to come.

Also if I am not mistaken royal pardon takes place in December , so maybe this was a reduction to 1 year and December full pardon?

[NanLaew]

32 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Thanks. Every day Thaksin is in jail is a good day. 

And even if he is in a luxury hospital, it's still considered jail. There are lots of restrictions for him.

I am sure it's a big difference compared to luxury life in the desert.

I hope he really has to stay that year in "jail". Let's see.

 

What are the chances of that now, eh?

 

Muhammad Ali — 'Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.'

[herfiehandbag]

47 minutes ago, arithai12 said:

I came here to read @OneMoreFarang... I hope he is ok.

He has decided to protest - if you can't beat 'em join 'em.

 

He has gone out with a can of petrol to burn down his local bus stop!

[BonnieandClyde]

Thaksin is slippery as an eel... anything is possible when he is around.

Time and again he has done things that we thought impossible, like coming back to Thailand

[Leatherneck]

31 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

Thanks everyone who helped me,i will not forget anyone.Christmas card in the post for all of you

Christmas card in a bulging brown envelope you mean?

[NanLaew]

Anyway, no matter which side you bat for, I won't be making any more comments on a Royal pardon on a public forum in Thailand.

[khunpin]

To the majority of the Thai people:

 

Get together, plan ahead - and let the next riots begin!