Original report from Phnom Penh
22 February 2010
Foreign Ministry officials say they will protest the sentencing of six Cambodians to two years in jail by a Thai court on Monday.
The defendants, four men and two women, were caught collecting rattan on the wrong side of the border earlier this year.
On Friday, a court in Thailand’s Surin province found them guilty of illegal entry and illegal logging.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said Monday that neither a lawyer nor the Cambodian consul for Surin province was present at the sentencing, in what he called an “irregular” procedure.
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