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.