Phnom Penh
It is the first time in more than fifteen years that he has crossed the gate of his opulent villa in the western suburbs of Bangkok.
In the early hours of Sunday, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was granted early release, marking the return to civilian life of the most influential Thai politician of the last twenty years.
The patriarch of the Shinawatra dynasty, former number one political enemy of the country's military-royalist elite, left the police hospital where he had been detained in August 2023 for health reasons.
“Welcome home, we have been waiting for this day for so long,”
his loved ones wrote on a colorful sign hanging on the gate of the family mansion.
Discreet, the 74-year-old man did not address the journalists and photographers who came to witness his release.
Through the windows of the black Mercedes that took him home, he was seen wearing a neck brace and his arm in a splint...
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