Convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is genuinely sick and has not been granted any privileges while or by being treated on the 14th floor of Police General Hospital, Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong told members of parliament today.

Thai lawmakers want to see Thaksin Shinawatra in hospital

He also maintains that the regulation, recently issued by the Corrections Department, to allow convicts to serve their terms outside prisons is intended to ease overcrowding in prisons and was not meant to benefit Thaksin, as claimed by critics, adding that the law pertaining to serving prison terms outside prisons has been in enforceable since 2017.

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By Thai PBS World