By SUPALAK GANJANAKHUNDEE
THE NATION
The two Thai nationalists jailed in Cambodia on espionage charges have had a change of heart and will not contest their convictions, their attorney said on the last day for appeal yesterday.
“They decided days ago not to file an appeal against the verdict,” an official at the office of Ros Aun, the attorney, told The Nation via telephone. “The case is final.”
Activists Veera Somkwamkid and Ratree Pipatanapaiboon were sentenced by the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance on February 1 to eight and six years imprisonment respectively.
They had 30 days to file an appeal.
They were arrested along with five other Thais, including Democrat lawmaker Panich Vikitsreth, on December 29 while inspecting a disputed border area near Sa Kaew’s Ban Nong Chan village.
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