Cambodian court sentences Australian filmmaker to 6 years for espionage
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — An Australian filmmaker who has been outspoken about human rights abuses in Cambodia, and who was arrested while filming an opposition political rally, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for espionage.
The filmmaker, James Ricketson, 69, has been in jail since June of last year, when he was detained while flying a drone with an attached camera over the rally. During Ricketson’s two-week trial, which ended Thursday, prosecutors never said for what country he was supposed to have spied.