Former Thailand PM flees to Dubai rather than face negligence verdict

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Former Thailand PM flees to Dubai rather than face negligence verdict
By Sam Howard   |   Aug. 26, 2017 at 9:22 AM

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra walks past a military honor guard during a welcoming ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing April 17, 2012. Shinawatra, on trial for negligence, has fled her country and gone to Dubai. File Photo Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo

Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Former Thailand prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai in the face of an arrest warrant issued by the Thai Supreme Court.

Yingluck, the first woman prime minister of Thailand, has been on trial for negligence over the last two years. A verdict hearing was scheduled for Friday, but she didn't show up, prompting the court's arrest order.

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