Overjoyed fans have welcomed home ex-Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as he returned to the country after years away. But he was then taken to jail.
On a day of high political stakes in Thailand, polarising ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has made a long-awaited homecoming and been escorted to prison to begin the sentence that has hung over his head for more than a decade.
“It’s time for me to be with the Thai people,” he told Nikkei Asia in Singapore before embarking on the final leg of his journey home. “Certainly, there must be some deal, some assurance that he doesn’t have to stay long in prison,” said Termsak Chalermpalanupap, the head of the Thailand studies program at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.
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