Veera Somkwamkid (R) and his assistant Ratree Pipattanapaiboon during one of their hearings in a Cambodian court in Phnom Penh.
PHNOM PENH ( The Cambodia Herald)-Prime Minster Hun Sen said today that the Cambodian King signed a Royal pardon for the Thai prisoner Veera Somkwamkid.
Hun Sen told Sihasak Phuangketheow, the secretary general and the acting minister of foreign affairs of Thailand in a meeting at the Peace Palace, according Ieng Sophallet, an assistant of the Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Sihasak Phuangketheow met with Hun Sen after he met Cambodian foreign minister Hor Nam Hong in the morning to explain about the mass deportation of illegal Cambodian workers.
Veera Somkwamkid was sentenced in Feb 2011 by the Cambodian court to 8 years in prison for spying.
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Thai Yellow-Shirt Activist Veera Released From Prison
BY PHORN BOPHA | the cambodia daily, JULY 1, 2014
King Norodom Sihamoni has granted a royal pardon to Thai yellow-shirt activist Veera Somkwamkid, who has been imprisoned in Cambodia since 2010, an assistant to Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday.
The announcement was made during a visit to Cambodia by Thailand’s acting Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow, who made the request for the pardon of Mr. Veera on behalf of General Prayuth Chan-ocha, head of the Thai military government.
“With the request from His Excellency [General Prayuth] Chan-ocha, Samdech [Mr. Hun Sen] told His Excellency Sihasak that Somkwamkid has been released following the pardon from the King, which was signed today,” said Eang Sophalleth, Mr. Hun Sen’s personal assistant, following a meeting between the prime minister and Mr. Sihasak.
“He [Mr. Somkwamkid] was released earlier today and he will go back home with the delegate with His Excellency Sihasak’s delegation tomorrow,” Mr. Sophalleth added.
Mr. Veera and his colleague Ratree Pipattanapaiboon, both ultra-nationalist Thai activists, were sentenced to eight and six years, respectively, in December 2010 for spying, entering the country illegally, and entering a restricted military area in Banteay Meanchey province.
Ms. Ratree was released by a royal pardon in February 2013 along with 412 other prisoners to mark the cremation of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
3 comments:
This regime is only good at pleasing foreigners, but neglected their own people. Pathetic. Siem used dump trucks to carry khmer and dumped like trash. And this government didn't say anything. Pathetic loser.
he was released in exchange for the khmer workers who were arrested by the thai junta... have the workers arrived back in Cambodia , i could not find any news regarding this prisoners exchange ?
3:30 am I agreed. CPP was acting on the orders from Hanoi. They wanted to please Siam military Junta. If they not trying to be nice to Prachut Chan Ocha he might start of another fight, this time he might send his fighter aircrafts to bomb Taing Krasaing. Lol. No the real reasons Hun Sen bowed down to Siam because he received orders from Hanoi to mint relations with Siam so they don't disrupted their profitable corruptions system. When a country still under foreign controls it will be weak and can't control it's own territories. It's can't take care of it's own peoples. This had been proven through out the world history. Foreigners and especially Youn, Siam, European they could careless about our peoples.
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