Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted Tuesday for allegedly insulting the monarchy during a 2015 interview with foreign media but was granted bail, avoiding pre-trial detention. The influential political figure was indicted by the attorney general for violating the country’s lese-majeste law. A criminal court in Bangkok accepted the indictment and granted bail as sought by Thaksin. During the interview that appeared in South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, Thaksin criticized members of the king’s privy council for supporting the 2014 coup that toppled a caretaker government…