Mam sonando biography
Mam Sonando (Khmer: ម៉ម សូណង់ដូ; born 13 February ) is a Cambodian radio journalist and politician with French dual citizenship....
Mam Sonando is a Cambodian radio journalist and politician with French dual citizenship.
Mam Sonando
Cambodian radio journalist (born )
In this Cambodian name, the surname is Mam. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Sonando.
Mam Sonando (Khmer: ម៉ម សូណង់ដូ; born 13 February )[1] is a Cambodian radio journalist and politician with French dual citizenship.[2] He is the owner and director of Phnom Penh's Beehive Radio, which the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) described in as "one of Cambodia's few independent news outlets".[3] He also acts as a political commentator for the station.
Sonando has been imprisoned three times on charges related to his reporting: a arrest for "inciting riots", a arrest for defamation, and a arrest for insurrection.[4] His twenty-year prison sentence for the latter was protested by human rights groups, and US President Barack Obama expressed concerns about the case in a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The sentence was overturn