Backers ask King to set Sonando free
Members of the Association of Democrats, the group led by jailed activist and Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando, rallied in front of the Royal Palace yesterday to deliver petitions appealing for his release.
Huon Phannary, the deputy secretary-general of the association, said yesterday that nearly 100 people gathered to present the request through a palace official. …
The petition asks for the royals to intervene in a case that saw the Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentence Sonando last week to 20 years in prison for his masterminding of a so-called secessionist plot. …
