{"id":57981,"date":"2023-09-01T19:54:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/thai-king-reduces-ex-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-prison-sentence-to-one-year"},"modified":"2023-09-01T19:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:54:12","slug":"thai-king-reduces-ex-pm-thaksin-shinawatras-prison-sentence-to-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57981","title":{"rendered":"Thai king reduces ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra\u2019s prison sentence to one year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thaksin, who returned to Thailand last week, \u2018accepted his crime and showed remorse\u2019, says royal gazette<\/p>\n<p>King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand has reduced the sentence of Thaksin Shinawatra from eight years down to one, just over a week after the former prime minister returned from more than 15 years in self-imposed exile.<\/p>\n<p>A document published in the royal gazette said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/22\/thaksin-represents-the-grassroots-people-thailands-divisive-former-leader-returns\">country\u2019s most famous politician<\/a> had \u201caccepted his crime and showed remorse\u201d, adding the former prime minister was elderly and ill.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/01\/thai-king-reduces-ex-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-prison-sentence-to-one-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thaksin, who returned to Thailand last week, \u2018accepted his crime and showed remorse\u2019, says royal gazetteKing Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand has reduced the sentence of Thaksin Shinawatra from eight years down to one, just over a week after the former &#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":[41,93,2873,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57981","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=57981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57982,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57981\/revisions\/57982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}