Siwarak brought to court on Tuesday, 8th December.BANGKOK, Dec 11 (TNA) - Cambodian king Norodom Sihamoni on Friday pardoned a Thai engineer sentenced seven years in Cambodian jail for espionage charge, government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said on Friday.
Mr Khieu told international media that Prime Minister Hun Sen had requested the royal pardon for the Thai national on Thursday and King Sihamoni signed it Friday morning.
He said Mr Siwarak Chutipong will be released from the Cambodian jail on Monday.
A Cambodian court sentenced Mr Siwarak, an employee of Cambodia Air Traffic Service, to seven years prison and fined him 100,000 baht (US$3,000) for releasing flight details of Thailand’s fugitive ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra when he visited Phnom Penh last month on his first trip there after being appointed economic adviser to the Cambodian government.
"This morning Hun Sen said that if the man wants to continue working in Cambodia, he is welcome." Mr Khieu was quoted as saying by Agence France Presse (AFP), a French news agency.
Prompong Nopparit, spokesman of Thailand’s opposition Puea Thai party, allied to Mr Thaksin, said earlier that he and other party members of parliament would submit letters seeking a royal pardon for Mr Siwarak to the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok Friday morning, while a third letter is being sent to Mr Siwarak's mother, now in the Cambodian capital, for her signature.
Mr Prompong however cancelled the plan but instead headed to the Thai Foreign Ministry in Bangkok, submitting a letter urging the resignation of Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya following the ruling of Cambodian court on Mr Siwarak's case, suggesting that Mr Kasit is himself in some way responsible.
Seri Mutratan, deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs General Affairs Division received the letter from Mr Prompong.
The spokesman said following the verdict of the Cambodian court that Mr Siwarak was found guilty, no one in the Thai Foreign Ministry showed responsibility, even though the Thai first secretary in Phnom Penh Kamrob Palawatwichai and other foreign ministry officials were involved in the matter.
Mr Prompong urged Mr Kasit and Mr Kamrob to show their responsibility to Mr Siwarak's family, charging that their behaviour violated Cambodian law and had negative impact on the relations of the two neighbouring countries.
Mr Prompong also demanded that Mr Kasit resign from his post, while urging Mr Kamrob to apologise to Mr Siwarak's family.
The spokesman added that if no action is taken, he will propose that the party raise the issue against the foreign minister in a House debate and will lodge a complaint against Mr Kamrob to concerned agencies to probe whether his actions have broken Thai state officials' discipline. (TNA)
Mr Khieu told international media that Prime Minister Hun Sen had requested the royal pardon for the Thai national on Thursday and King Sihamoni signed it Friday morning.
He said Mr Siwarak Chutipong will be released from the Cambodian jail on Monday.
A Cambodian court sentenced Mr Siwarak, an employee of Cambodia Air Traffic Service, to seven years prison and fined him 100,000 baht (US$3,000) for releasing flight details of Thailand’s fugitive ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra when he visited Phnom Penh last month on his first trip there after being appointed economic adviser to the Cambodian government.
"This morning Hun Sen said that if the man wants to continue working in Cambodia, he is welcome." Mr Khieu was quoted as saying by Agence France Presse (AFP), a French news agency.
Prompong Nopparit, spokesman of Thailand’s opposition Puea Thai party, allied to Mr Thaksin, said earlier that he and other party members of parliament would submit letters seeking a royal pardon for Mr Siwarak to the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok Friday morning, while a third letter is being sent to Mr Siwarak's mother, now in the Cambodian capital, for her signature.
Mr Prompong however cancelled the plan but instead headed to the Thai Foreign Ministry in Bangkok, submitting a letter urging the resignation of Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya following the ruling of Cambodian court on Mr Siwarak's case, suggesting that Mr Kasit is himself in some way responsible.
Seri Mutratan, deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs General Affairs Division received the letter from Mr Prompong.
The spokesman said following the verdict of the Cambodian court that Mr Siwarak was found guilty, no one in the Thai Foreign Ministry showed responsibility, even though the Thai first secretary in Phnom Penh Kamrob Palawatwichai and other foreign ministry officials were involved in the matter.
Mr Prompong urged Mr Kasit and Mr Kamrob to show their responsibility to Mr Siwarak's family, charging that their behaviour violated Cambodian law and had negative impact on the relations of the two neighbouring countries.
Mr Prompong also demanded that Mr Kasit resign from his post, while urging Mr Kamrob to apologise to Mr Siwarak's family.
The spokesman added that if no action is taken, he will propose that the party raise the issue against the foreign minister in a House debate and will lodge a complaint against Mr Kamrob to concerned agencies to probe whether his actions have broken Thai state officials' discipline. (TNA)
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