Union leader ready to pay bulk of bail

12 May 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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Independent union leader Ath Thorn said Sunday he had collected enough money from supporters to pay most of his $25,000 bail to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, and would deliver it to the court Monday. The court has charged Mr. Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union, with inciting violence at a garment factory strike in September and ordered him to pay the bail in full by next Monday to avoid pretrial detention. …

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