Thailand revokes passports of ex-PM

Bangkok: Thailand has revoked the passports of ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra, who has yet to publicly emerge since she slipped out of the country two months ago ahead of judgement day in her negligence trial, officials said today.

The former Prime Minister, whose elected government was toppled in a 2014 coup, was sentenced to five years in prison in absentia last month for failing to stop graft in a rice policy.

The verdict, which closed the curtain on her political career, was lambasted by Yingluck’s supporters as a junta- backed effort to boot her out of Thai politics for good. “All of Yingluck’s passports have been revoked now,” Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said in Bangkok on Tuesday.

“We don’t know of her whereabouts, only reports that she is in United Kingdom but not exactly which city,” he added.