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World > Asia & Oceania
Thai ex-PM indicted for insulting monarchy
By Agence France-Presse
Jun 19, 2024 12:06 am

(UPDATE) BANGKOK — Thai prosecutors on Tuesday formally indicted influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra under the Southeast Asian kingdom's strict royal insult laws over comments he made nearly a decade ago.

The case against the 74-year-old billionaire, twice elected premier and ousted in a 2006 military coup, is one of four before the courts that could trigger fresh political instability in the putsch-prone country.

Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra waves as he walks out from a beauty salon in Bangkok on June 5, 2024. AFP PHOTO

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