BANGKOK: Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released early Sunday from a Bangkok hospital where he spent six months serving a prison sentence for corruption-related offenses.

Thaksin was seen wearing a neck support, a sling on his right arm, and a surgical mask inside one of the cars in a convoy leaving the Police General Hospital just before sunrise.

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