Why did Yingluck and her son appear in Dubai?

April 13 is Thailand’s traditional New Year “Songkran Festival” (also known as the “Water Songkran Festival”). A photo of former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra celebrating the festival at her brother Thaksin’s home leaked on the Internet, causing Outside attention.

The exiled former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister celebrated Thailand's "Songkran Festival" together in Dubai. In the photo, Thaksin, Yingluck Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra's son Supasek Amornchat. They are all wearing floral shirts, and Yingluck is performing a water-sprinkling ceremony on her brother Thaksin. It is reported that the photo was posted by the Facebook account Kom Khao and was taken at Thaksin and Yingluck’s home in Dubai. The two former Thai prime ministers went into exile in 2008 and 2017 respectively after stepping down, and were wanted by the Thai authorities. In recent months, they have appeared frequently in the UK, Singapore, Japan and other places, causing concern from the outside world and the Thai authorities. Pay attention.

In November last year, netizens exposed a photo of Yingluck shopping in a London shopping mall. In December, a frontal photo of Yingluck appeared in London for the first time.

This year. In March, photos of Yingluck and her brother Thaksin appearing together at a dental clinic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, leaked online. Yingluck and Thaksin were smiling and seemed to be in good spirits.

Later, Japanese media reported. According to reports, Yingluck and her brother Thaksin arrived in Japan on March 29 and attended the book launch of former Japanese Minister of Autonomy Ishii Kazuo in Tokyo.

It took more than half a year for Yingluck to escape from Thailand. Judging from the recently exposed photos, Yingluck seems to have not been affected by the "Rice Malpractice Case" trial, and whether Yingluck will be extradited to Thailand has also become one of the topics that has attracted much attention from the outside world. .