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Thai courtroom acquits ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of royal defamation cost
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Thai courtroom acquits ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of royal defamation cost

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By Tycoon Herald 6 Min Read Published August 22, 2025
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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at Legal Court docket for a verdict for allegedly defaming the monarchy in Bangkok on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025.

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BANGKOK — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of a royal defamation cost by a courtroom on Friday, in a case that might have despatched him to jail for as much as 15 years.

The 76-year-old Thaksin, smiling as he walked away from the courtroom, was the primary to disclose the decision, responding to journalists’ questions with the one phrase: “Dismissal.”

His lawyer, Winyat Chatmontree, additionally confirmed the acquittal verdict, as did the Bangkok Legal Court docket later in a information launch.

The legislation on defaming the monarchy, an offense generally known as lese majeste, is punishable by three to fifteen years in jail. It’s among the many harshest such legal guidelines globally and more and more has been utilized in Thailand to punish authorities critics.

Chonthicha Jangrew, a politician with Thailand's Move Forward Party, leaves the Thai parliament in Bangkok on July 13, 2023, after party leader Pita Limjaroenrat failed to secure the enough votes for the premiership.

The authorized assist group Thai Attorneys for Human Rights has stated that since early 2020, greater than 270 individuals — a lot of them scholar activists — have been charged with violating the legislation.

The courtroom’s information launch stated it had discovered the witnesses and proof have been too weak to help conviction.

Thaksin was initially charged in 2016 over remarks he made a 12 months earlier to journalists in South Korea. The case was not pursued at the moment as a result of he was in exile and the mandatory authorized procedures couldn’t be accomplished.

The information launch stated the courtroom decided that the account of the interview offered by the prosecution was incomplete and lacked context, and a key level didn’t clearly refer particularly to then-King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

It additionally stated the courtroom thought that witnesses within the case towards Thaksin may need been motivated by political bias, as a result of they’ve participated in political protests towards him, leaving open the chance they might have unfairly interpreted his phrases.

Thaksin’s opponents, who have been typically staunch royalists, accused him of corruption, abuse of energy and disrespecting then-King Bhumibol, who died in 2016. Thaksin has at all times asserted that the instances towards him have been politically motivated.

When he was indicted final 12 months, Thaksin’s freedom on bail was authorized with the situation that he couldn’t journey out of Thailand until authorized by courtroom. His passport was confiscated.

Regardless of dealing with numerous prosecutions since leaving workplace, Thaksin has spent no time in jail. He was overseas in 2006 when a navy coupousted him. He briefly returned in 2008, solely to return rapidly to exile to keep away from a attainable jail time period.

He returned to Thailand in 2023 when the Pheu Thai political celebration that he’s intently related to got here to energy. He was despatched to serve an eight-year jail time period on costs associated to corruption and abuse of energy however was transferred instantly to a hospital on medical grounds. After six months in a hospital suite, he was granted a pardon and parole and let out.

The choice to ship him to a hospital as an alternative of jail was extensively questioned as as to if he was granted a particular, undeserved privilege. The Supreme Court docket’s Legal Division for Political Workplace Holders will rule subsequent month in one other case that places him in jeopardy of imprisonment.

Since his return, Thaksin has maintained a excessive profile, touring the nation making public appearances and political observations that might upset the highly effective conservative institution that was behind his 2006 ouster.

His daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who turned prime minister final 12 months, can also be in sizzling water. She stands accused of failing to deal with in an moral method a June 15 name with Cambodian Senate President Hun Senin which they mentioned tensions over territory claimed by each nations. The Constitutional Court docket suspended her from her duties on July 1 and subsequent week will rule whether or not she’s going to lose her prime minister place for breaching ethics legal guidelines.

Thais have lengthy been accustomed to sudden adjustments of presidency because of navy coups, numbering greater than a dozen for the reason that Thirties. However previously twenty years, they’ve more and more seen such adjustments imposed by the courts, which have ousted 4 prime ministers and dissolved three election-winning political events, typically on slender technical grounds.

Normally, the targets have been seen as challengers to the normal royalist institution, whose strongest defenders are the military and the courts.

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