Thailand: King Reduces Ex-PM Thaksin’s 8-Year Prison Sentence To 1 Year

By Wilawan Watcharasakwe

Thailand’s king reduced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s prison term to one year from eight years, the Royal Gazette said on Friday, a day after the tycoon applied for a pardon.

The announcement did not say whether King Maha Vajiralongkorn (Rama X) was granting Thaksin an outright...