Bangkok Post
The Thai embassy in Phnom Penh has sought permission from the Prey Sar prison to send a doctor to visit Veera Somkwamkid in jail or take him outside for treatment but has yet received a reply, Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongphakdi said on Monday.
Mr Thani said this in responding to a report that Mr Veera was seriously ill and that his relatives had decided not to appeal against a jail sentence handed down on him by a Cambodian court but to seek a royal pardon instead.
Even though the Thai embassy was not allowed to visit Mr Veera, its officials delivered food to him in prison twice a day. The doctors at the Prey Sar prison told the officials only that Veera was having a minor cold.
On learning from a news report that his relatives visited Mr Veera at the prison on Mar 4 and found he was seriously ill, the embassy had sought permission from the prison to send a doctor to see him in jail or take him out for treatment.
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