Special care: The exterior of the Maha Bhumibol Rachanusorn 88th Birthday Anniversary Building on the premises of the police general hospital in Bangkok where Thaksin has been admitted. — AP
Divisive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was transferred from prison to a hospital yesterday, less than a day after he returned from an extended exile and started serving an eight-year sentence.
He had returned to Thailand after 15 years abroad on the same day a party linked to him won a parliamentary vote to form a new government.
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