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Thaksin must serve prison time, not house arrest

Red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship supporters hold a birthday party for ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawtra at a bookshop at Imperial World shopping mall in Lat Phrao, Bangkok, on July 26, 2016. (File photo)

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve his sentence in prison, not under house arrest, if he returns home, according to caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam.

Mr Wissanu, the cabinet’s legal expert, was responding to Thaksin’s latest tweets saying he wanted to return home before July 26, his 74th birthday, to care for his grandchildren, and would enter the “legal process”.

According to Mr Wissanu, there are three types of cases involving Thaksin.

The first were cases in…

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