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BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- John Yettaw, the American convicted in Myanmar of illegally entering the country to visit pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, left Thailand Wednesday, authorities and government officials said.
John Yettaw is shown this past weekend sitting inside a van at a military airport in Bangkok, Thailand.
Although the Thai Foreign Ministry and immigration police confirmed his exit from Bangkok, his destination was not immediately known.
Yettaw, a diabetic, had arrived to Thailand from Myanmar on Sunday aboard a military plane and then taken to a hospital for observation.
Yettaw, a 53-year-old former military serviceman from Falcon, Missouri, was sentenced last week for a May 3 incident when he swam, uninvited, to the house of Suu Kyi and stayed for two days.
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb obtained Yettaw's release on Saturday in Myanmar. There Webb met separately with both Suu Kyi and Myanmar's top official, junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe.
"He was not a well man," Webb said without elaborating about Yettaw. "He had a medical emergency this morning when they read him his orders of deportation."
Webb, who chairs the East Asia and Pacific affairs subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was the first member of Congress to visit Myanmar in more than a decade. He also was the first U.S. official to meet with Than Shwe. source: cnn.com