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Jailed Thai ex-PM Thaksin requests royal pardon: Lawyer
Thaksin Shinawatra seeks royal pardon to reduce his one-year prison sentence after the Supreme Court ruled his prior hospital stay was unjustified, his lawyer said.
- Jailed former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, 76, requested a royal pardon from the king, according to his lawyer Winyat Chatmontree.
- Thaksin, a billionaire telecoms magnate, was sentenced to eight years in jail for conflicts of interest and abuse of power while prime minister from 2001 to 2006, but his sentence was later commuted to one year by the king.
- The Supreme Court ruled this month that Thaksin improperly served his 2023 sentence in a hospital suite rather than a cell, upholding that he had not been critically ill.
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