BANGKOK: Embattled Thai ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra said she was a “victim of politics” in a defiant closing defense on Tuesday at her trial for negligence over a rice subsidy scheme that could see her jailed.

Supporters at the Supreme Court, many with banners reading “We love Yingluck” and “We’re by your side”, mobbed the former prime minister, whose personal appeal in her heartland has surged as her legal travails have deepened.

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