{"id":253453,"date":"2026-06-03T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253453\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:31:08","slug":"thai-ex-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-granted-royal-pardon-to-mark-queens-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/253453\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra granted royal pardon to mark queen\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/thailand?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thailand<\/a>\u2019s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has met the conditions for a royal pardon as part of clemency measure marking the queen\u2019s birthday, the justice minister said on Wednesday.<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/thaksin-shinawatra?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thaksin<\/a>, 76, served eight months of a one-year sentence for corruption and abuse of power before he was released on parole last month due to his age.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Department of Corrections said the ex-leader was required to wear an electronic monitoring device as a condition of his release.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Justice Minister Rutthapon Naowarat said on Wednesday that Thaksin was among those eligible for the latest royal clemency measure.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHe is on the list,\u201d Rutthapon told reporters at a royal ceremony.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHe had less than one year remaining of his sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has met the conditions for a royal pardon as part of clemency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[21470,98827,9,24,63,98824,98819,122,124,123,98823,98826,98820,98821,9202,98825,98822],"class_list":["post-253453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-department-of-corrections","tag-justice-minister","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pheu-thai","tag-prime-minister","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royal-clemency-measure","tag-royal-pardon","tag-rutthapon-naowarat","tag-shinawatra","tag-thailand","tag-thaksin","tag-winyat-chatmontree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}