‘Shoe thrower’ Sam Sokha deported from Thailand

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Ananth Baliga and Khouth Sophak Chakrya

 

Global rights group Human Rights Watch this evening said that Sam Sokha, who is wanted for throwing a shoe at a ruling party billboard last year, was handed over to Cambodia today by Thai authorities, a little over a month after she was arrested and convicted in Thailand for overstaying her visa.

 

The rights group’s deputy director for Asia, Phil Robertson, said contacts with local Thai authorities had confirmed that Sokha, who is recognised by the United Nations as a refugee, had been sent back to Cambodia this evening.

 

“Forcing refugee Sam Sokha back to Cambodia is an extremely serious and absolutely blatant human rights violation by Thailand’s military dictatorship apparently seeking to buy favors from Hun Sen,” he said via email.

 

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[thaiguzzi]

Yep. Pretty disgusting, but then i'd expect nothing less from Mr P's govt.