Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mother meets detained son in Phnom Penh jail

November 28, 2009
THE NATION AND AP

Takes soil from house as symbolic link to his motherland
Detained Thai employee Siwarak Chotipong met his mother for the first time yesterday since being arrested on a charge of spying.
Siwarak has been accused of passing on fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's flight information to an official of the Thai Embassy two weeks ago.
Simarak Na Khon Phanom flew to see her son in Prey Sor prison on the outskirts of Phnom Penh for an hour and a half yesterday afternoon. She took along soil from her house in Nakhon Ratchasima for her son as a symbolic connection with the motherland.
Siwarak has lost some weight but is still in good health and Cambodian authorities are taking good care of her son, she told reporters in Phnom Penh after a visit.

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