American dilemma: US citizen awaits deportation for threats to Ambassador

geovalin · November 4, 2020

An American citizen is awaiting deportation after he was detained for threatening US Embassy staff and Ambassador Patrick Murphy. Stephen Sidney Greatsinger, 56, has been held in a Cambodian detention centre for three months pending deportation after the embassy in Phnom Penh complained to local authorities that they had received threatening emails from him.

According to Lieutenant General Kem Sarin, Chief of Investigation and Legal Proceeding Department of the General Department of Immigration, who is in charge the case, Greatsinger was arrested based on a report from the US Embassy. “He was accused of endangering national security as he sent threatening messages against the safety of the US ambassador and embassy staff,” he said. “The US Embassy reported these threats to us [immigration] and we have enough evidence in the e-mail message he sent to detain him.”

Lt Gen Sarin said Greatsinger has been detained under Article 36 of the Law on Immigration, which states that the Minister of Interior shall have the power to order the expulsion from the Kingdom of an alien (foreigner) whose behaviour or activity is “dangerous to the national security”. Greatsinger had been living in Cambodia since 2014 when he was detained at his home in central Phnom Penh by immigration police on August 4, for what he was told was due to an “electronic crime against the US Embassy”.

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nobodysfriend · November 5, 2020

14 hours ago, geovalin said:

Stephen Sidney Greatsinger, 56, has been held in a Cambodian detention centre for three months pending deportation after the embassy in Phnom Penh complained to local authorities that they had received threatening emails from him.

14 hours ago, geovalin said:

“He was accused of endangering national security as he sent threatening messages against the safety of the US ambassador and embassy staff,”

By doing this , he just asked for problems ... not the brightest candle on the cake , it seems ...