Cambodia - Free tomorrow, but exposed to threat from suspended sentence

Reporters without borders

Radio journalist Mam Sonando will be free tomorrow morning after a Phnom Penh appeal court today quashed the 20-year jail sentence he received last October on charges of inciting an armed insurrection and usurping official functions, but gave him an eight-month jail term on a new charge of inciting illegal deforestation. The appeal court also imposed an additional suspended sentence of four years and four months in prison. As Sonando, 72, has been held since 15 July 2012, he will be (...)

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