Royal pardon reduces Thaksin’s jail term to one year
Ex-premier’s petition expresses wish that he be allowed to use his experience to ‘benefit the nation’
His Majesty the King has granted a royal pardon to Thaksin Shinawatra, reducing the former prime minister’s combined jail sentence from eight years to one, according to an announcement published in the Royal Gazette on Friday.
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