Serbia Grants Citizenship to Thailand’s Fugitive Ex-PM

Serbia Grants Citizenship to Thailand’s Fugitive Ex-PM
Ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand on Sept. 29, 2015. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters
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BELGRADE—The Serbian government has granted citizenship to Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra who fled her homeland in 2017 to avoid negligence charges.

Shinawatra, 52, went to Dubai and joined her brother Thaksin, another former Thai prime minister who also fled in 2006 to avoid a prison sentence for corruption.