Overview

• Thaksin Shinawatra was taken into custody in Bangkok shortly after the ruling and began serving his term at a remand facility.
• The Supreme Court found the execution of his sentence was not carried out according to law, invalidating time in a police hospital and under home confinement.
• The decision followed a complaint that prompted an inquiry concluding his extended hospitalisation was unjustified and some procedures were nonessential.
• Thaksin returned from years in self-exile in 2023, saw an eight-year corruption sentence commuted to one year, and initially avoided jail through hospital and home detention.
• He becomes the first former Thai prime minister to be jailed, a setback that compounds pressures on his Pheu Thai base after Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s recent removal from office.