Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) leaves the court after being acquitted of royal defamation at the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug. 22, 2025. Sakchai Lalit/AP
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.
