Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was acquitted of defaming the country’s former king in an interview in 2015, by a court in Bangkok on Friday.
Shinawatra, 76, and his aides wore yellow ties—a color associated with the former king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, and the monarchy in general—at the hearing at the Bangkok Criminal Court, and afterward, he left without responding to questions from journalists.
Shinawatra’s lawyer, Winyat Chatmontree, confirmed he had been acquitted, as did the Bangkok Criminal Court later in a news release.
King Bhumibol—who was the world’s longest reigning monarch—died in 2016, aged 88, a year after the interview Shinawatra gave with a television station in South Korea….
Former Thai Prime Minister Cleared of Insulting Thailand’s Former King
