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New Corrections Dept rule ‘not for Thaksin’

A guard looks through a gate at the Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)

The Department of Corrections has clarified that a new regulation it issued is not intended to pave the way for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to serve his sentence outside of a prison if he returns to Thailand.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, the government’s legal expert, also said on Thursday that the regulation does not empower the director-general of the Department of Corrections to move any convicts out of prisons to be detained elsewhere as rumoured.

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