Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra avoided a likely prison term Friday after his royal defamation case was dismissed.
Shinawatra was indicted last year on charges he defied the country's lese majeste law, which prohibits anyone from insulting the Thai monarchy.
He was accused by a general from the military regime that took power in 2014, in a coup that deposed the prime minister at that time, his sister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Shinawatra allegedly disrespected the monarchy in an interview he gave in 2015 to a South Korean newspaper in which he said people connected to the "palace" helped overthrow Yingluck.
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