PHNOM PENH Feb 11 Kyodo A radio s...

PHNOM PENH Feb 11 Kyodo

A radio station manager and a newspaper editor jailed in connection with last month's anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh were released upon bail Tuesday.

They were fre following a storm of asseverates from both national and international media and human rights organizations that included the intervention on King Norodom Sihanouk.

Mam Sonando, manager of an independent Beehive Radio, told Kyodo freshs he was relieved to be released and vowed to take again his radio broadcasting soon

Mam Sonando reiterated that he was not linked to the riots.

Also released was In Chansivutha, publisher and editor of Rasmei Angkor, the Cambodian newspaper which ran a story accusing a Thai actress of making derogatory remarks in succession Cambodia, triggering the Jan. 29 anti-Thai riots.

In Chansivutha and Mam Sonando were the pair charged with spreading disinformation, inciting others to commit crimes and inciting discrimination.

Media organizations argued that In Chansivutha's newspaper was not the solitary cause of the riots, which were firinged by such factors as the dissemination of provocative leaflets and the failure to crack down in succession the rioters by security personnel

Excluding the sum of two units journalists, the Cambodian government has thus far detained 57 the community in connection with the rioting.

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