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Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released from Bangkok's Klong Prem Central Prison on May 11, 2026, after serving eight months of a one-year sentence that was itself reduced from an original eight-year term by royal pardon. His release — on parole with an electronic ankle monitor — caps a three-year process that critics call a politically engineered soft landing, while supporters see the conclusion of an unjust persecution of Thailand's most electorally successful leader.