Overview
- Judges directed the issuance of a detention warrant and instructed a Bangkok prison official to take Thaksin into custody.
- The court found his prior placement in a police hospital was not medically justified for full-time care, meaning he had not properly served his punishment.
- Police strengthened security around the Supreme Court as a small group of supporters in red gathered before the hearing.
- The ruling arrives just after a power shift that excluded Pheu Thai from government, with Anutin Charnvirakul’s coalition taking office and pledging no favoritism and elections within four months.
- Background to the case includes Thaksin’s 2023 return from exile, a royal commutation from eight years to one, early parole in February 2024, and a late‑August acquittal on lèse‑majesté charges.