Cambodia's pardon of Australian filmmaker ends "nightmare"
22/9/2018 14:07
The family of an Australian filmmaker pardoned by Cambodia after being jailed on espionage charges said on Saturday it was happy the "nightmare" came to an end, while the Australian foreign minister thanked the government in Phnom Penh for his release.
James Ricketson was freed from Phnom Penh's Prey Sar prison on Friday after a court sentenced him in August to six years in jail for damaging the country's reputation.
He was arrested in June 2017 after being photographed flying a drone above a rally organised by the now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) before communal elections.
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