Devillers Departs on Late Night Flight to China
Detained French architect Patrick Henri Devillers boarded a flight to China late last night after being held in custody in Cambodia for more than a month for his links to the biggest political scandal to hit China in decades, a government spokesman said. At Phnom Penh International Airport, an official at the check-in desk showed a reporter a computerized record that Mr. Devillers, 52, had been checked in on the 11:40 p.m. flight to Shanghai. “Patrick will be going to China tonight, by his own will. French embassy people will escort him to the plane,” Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said in a written message yesterday evening. …