Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Chinnava was sentenced to prison on the 9th and was serving one year again. He is currently undergoing 5 days of quarantine. After the quarantine is over, he will be transferred to the Kongbing Central Prison in the northern part of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. A spokesperson for the Thai Prison Department said on the 11th that he believed that he is in normal physical and mental state and may become a teacher in prison and teach foreign languages.
Takin's lawyer Wen Ya Chamondi told Reuters that Takka is currently under quarantine for five days and cannot contact the outside world. On the same day, Reuters reported based on two insiders as sources that he believed that the prison where he served his sentence was "unfriendly" and the environment was depressing.
Reuters quoted a former official from the prison department as saying that Kongbing Central Prison held about 6,500 prisoners, divided into 11 districts, including isolation areas and special areas where high-risk prisoners are detained. Regardless of age, all prisoners slept on the floor, each person was assigned three blankets, one as a mattress, one rolled up as a pillow, and the other as a quilt.
The Criminal Cases of Political Personnel of Thailand's Supreme Court ruled on the 9th that Thaksin's resignation of hospitalization in lieu of serving his sentence was illegal and invalid, and made a sentence of being imprisoned from now on to serve one year again.
Tashin is 76 years old and has served as the Prime Minister of Thailand since 2001. He stepped down due to a military coup in 2006 and has been in exile overseas for a long time. On August 22, 2023, Thaksin returned to Thailand and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Subsequently, due to the pardon of the Thai king, his sentence was reduced to one year. In February last year, Thaksin was released on parole on the grounds that he was over 70 years old, seriously ill and had served 6 months in prison.
