Former Thai PM Thaksin returns home after hospital discharge

Soft terms of confinement raise questions over possible special treatment

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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra sits in a vehicle after being released on parole on Feb. 18 in Bangkok. © AP

APORNRATH PHOONPHONGPHIPHAT, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was discharged from a hospital in Bangkok on Sunday after a roughly six-month stay and will serve the remainder of his one-year sentence at home.

At 6.09 a.m. local time, Thaksin was seen departing the hospital sitting beside his youngest daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra in a black Mercedes-Benz van, wearing a surgical mask and a cervical collar. The former leader was welcomed by his family at their residence, but declined to speak to waiting media.

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