Bangkok Post
The Thai embassy in Phnom Penh will today ask two Thai Patriots Network members convicted on espionage and illegal entry charges and detained at Prey Sar prison to endorse letters seeking their royal pardon.
Chavanond Intarakomalyasut, secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, said yesterday Cambodian lawyers of TPN coordinator Veera Somkhwamkid and his secretary Ratree Pipatanapaiboon had finished drafting the royal pardon documents with their lawyers and forwarded them to the Thai embassy for translation from Khmer into Thai.
"Staff of the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh will meet Veera and Ratree [today] at the prison. They will ask them to endorse the royal pardon documents," Mr Chavanond said.
He said the endorsed royal pardon documents would then be submitted to Cambodia's Office of the Prime Minister and its Ministry of Justice for consideration next week before being forwarded to Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni.
Pending the royal pardon's approval, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday said the government was looking at two possible options to bring Veera home.
Mr Abhisit said one would be to have him transferred to serve his sentence in Thailand under a prisoner transfer agreement signed with Cambodia.
He said there were a lot of problems involved in this method, such as how long he would serve in Cambodia before being transferred to Thailand.
The other option would be through procedures under the extradition agreement between the two countries, Mr Abhisit said.
Acting government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said after a meeting between the prime minister and Jacques Stroun, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross's regional delegation in Bangkok, at Government House, that Mr Stroun told the prime minister that he assigned his representative to visit Veera and Ratree at Prey Sar prison and found that Veera was suffering from health problems.
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