Thai prison department plans to assign Thaksin as language teacher


BANGKOK: Police Lieutenant-Colonel Shane Kanjanapach, deputy director-general and spokesman for the Department of Corrections, gave an update on billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra’s (pic) incarceration on Sept 11, following the one-year prison sentence handed down by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions.

He explained that the former prime minister is now undergoing a five-day quarantine period, after which the department will assign inmates to tasks based on their individual skills and preferences.

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