Ex-PM Thaksin taken to hospital hours after being jailed on return to Thailand
Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was transferred to a hospital overnight, hours after returning to Thailand after some 15 years in exile and being jailed on a series of criminal charges.
The Corrections Department said in a statement that the 74-year-old Thaksin had been taken to Bangkok’s police hospital in the early hours of Wednesday amid concerns about his blood pressure and low blood oxygen levels.