Bangkok Post: Cambodian Senior Minister Sok An is pledging to help the Puea Thai Party try to obtain a royal pardon for the Thai engineer sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in jail for spying.
"Senior Minister Sok An has promised to coordinate the letters [from Puea Thai] to [Cambodian Prime Minister] Samdech Hun Sen," Noppadon Pattama, a legal adviser to ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra and former foreign minister, told a party meeting by phone yesterday.
The opposition party was approached by Simarak na Nakhon Phanom, the engineer's mother, to ask party chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyudh and former premier Thaksin to help her son Sivarak Chutipong.
Mr Noppadon said the party had agreed to help Mrs Simarak with the pardon request.
Sivarak's family will seek a pardon through Hun Sen by working with the engineer's lawyer, Khieu Sambou.
Puea Thai will send three letters to the Cambodian leader, one signed by Gen Chavalit, one by its party members and the other by Mrs Simarak.
The party has assigned its members led by spokesman Prompong Nopparit to take the letters to Phnom Penh. They could arrive in the Cambodian capital as early as tomorrow.
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