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    California resident held political prisoner in Cambodia is released

    by James Queally, Los Angeles Times Aug 28, 2018 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - A California man who had been jailed in Cambodia for years after what many considered a sham court proceeding has been released from a notorious foreign prison.

    Meach Sovannara of Long Beach, a former spokesman for the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party who had been jailed for speaking at a 2014 political protest in the nation's capital, was released early Tuesday morning in Phnom Penh, according to

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