Second Factory Manager Arrested for Lese Majeste
A second Chinese garment factory manager was arrested yesterday for destroying a photograph of the late King Norodom Sihanouk, while the woman who destroyed pictures of the late monarch at the factory in Phnom Penh on Monday was convinced and given a one-year suspended sentence, officials said. Employed as a manager at the Sunn Lung Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, the Chinese national, whose name was not released by police, is accused of ripping up a photograph that depicted Norodom Sihanouk’s face in the moon, said In Dara, chief of administration at the factory. Hundreds of workers at the factory erupted in anger and forced the woman to travel with them to the Royal Palace to prostrate herself in front of a portrait of Norodom Sihanouk, where she was then detained by Phnom Penh Municipal Police, the city’s police chief Chun Sovan said. …
