{"id":57770,"date":"2023-08-23T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T03:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/thailands-former-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-moved-to-hospital-after-first-night-in-jail"},"modified":"2023-08-23T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:17:25","slug":"thailands-former-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-moved-to-hospital-during-first-night-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57770","title":{"rendered":"Thailand ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra moved to hospital on first night in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister moved after suffering a health problem, hours after returning to country following a years-long exile<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s imprisoned former leader Thaksin Shinawatra was moved to a hospital in the early hours of Wednesday, the day after he returned from exile, due to concerns over his health, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Thaksin, 74, was transferred to hospital at 1am during his first night in prison serving an eight-year sentence, officials said. He was experiencing insomnia, chest tightness, high blood pressure and the oxygen levels in his fingertips were low, according to a statement from the Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/thailands-former-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-moved-to-hospital-after-first-night-in-jail\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister moved after suffering a health problem, hours after returning to country following a years-long exileThailand\u2019s imprisoned former leader Thaksin Shinawatra was moved to a hospital in the early hours of Wednesday, the day after he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,2873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57793,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57770\/revisions\/57793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}