{"id":73944,"date":"2025-09-05T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/former-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-leaves-thailand-ahead-of-court-ruling-that-could-see-him-jailed-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:48:53","slug":"former-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-leaves-thailand-days-ahead-of-court-ruling-that-could-see-him-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73944","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand days ahead of court ruling that could see him jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After questions over whether the former prime minister was going back into exile, Thaksin said he would return no later than Monday to attend court<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s influential former prime miniser Thaksin Shinawatra flew out of the country on Thursday, police said, a day before a parliamentary vote for the next prime minister and ahead of a court ruling that could see him jailed.<\/p>\n<p>Many in Thailand spent Thursday evening glued to flight tracking websites, avidly following the path of Thaksin\u2019s private jet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/former-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-leaves-thailand-ahead-of-court-ruling-that-could-see-him-jailed-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After questions over whether the former prime minister was going back into exile, Thaksin said he would return no later than Monday to attend courtThailand\u2019s influential former prime miniser Thaksin Shinawatra flew out of the country on Thursday, polic&#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-73944","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\/73944","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=73944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73944\/revisions\/73945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}