No 2nd pardon request from Thaksin
published : 8 Dec 2023 at 08:33
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
Jailed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra has not requested a second royal pardon for a further jail term reduction, according to the Justice Minister.
The minister said on Wednesday that neither Thaksin nor his family has asked for a second royal pardon since he was granted the first one which saw his eight-year jail term cut to one year by His Majesty the King.
Thaksin, 74, returned to Thailand on Aug 22 after 15 years in self-exile. On the same day, the Supreme Court ordered that he be imprisoned for eight years for three convictions.
However, he was sent from Bangkok Remand Prison that night to Police General Hospital for health reasons and has stayed there since.
The justice minister also said on Wednesday the Corrections Department will consider doctors’ opinions before deciding whether to extend Thaksin’s hospitalisation outside prison further, to 120 days, at the end of this month.
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Vocabulary
- conviction: when someone is officially found to be guilty of a particular crime - การพิสูจน์ว่ากระทำผิด
- Corrections Department: the government department in charge of running prisons - กรมราชทัณฑ์
- exile: a situation in which you live in a foreign country because you feel you cannot live in your own country, usually for political reasons - การลี้ภัย การถูกขับออกนอกประเทศ
- grant: to officially give something - ให้
- hospitalisation: when a person must stay at a hospital for the treatment of a disease or injury -
- imprisoned: in a prison or another place from which a person cannot escape - ถูกขัง
- jail term: the length of time a person is required to spend in jail -
- neither: not the one nor the other of two people or things -
- pardon: an official decision to forgive someone for committing a crime and to free them from full or further punishment or to have their punishment reduced - การอภัยโทษ
- premier (noun): prime minister - นายกรัฐมนตรี
