Thai ex-PM Thaksin released on parole - lawyer

Thailand's jailed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra has completed parole proceedings and has formally been released from his detention, his lawyer said, after the tycoon was seen early Sunday in a vehicle leaving the hospital where he has been held since August.

"He has left the police hospital," Thaksin's lawyer Winyat Chartmontri told Reuters.

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