BANGKOK: Thailand's ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra faces an impeachment hearing on Friday, proceedings that could see her banned from politics for five years and reignite the country's bitter divisions.

Yingluck, Thailand's first female premier and the sister of self-exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, was dumped from office by a controversial court ruling shortly before the army seized power in a coup on May 22.

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