Mam Sonando, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mam Sonando

Cambodian radio journalist

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1942

Place of Birth: Kampong Siem District, Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia

Profession: journalist

Nationality: France, Cambodia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mam Sonando (Khmer: ??? ???????; born 13 February 1942) is a Cambodian radio journalist and politician with French dual citizenship.
He is the owner and director of Phnom Penh's Beehive Radio, which the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) described in 2012 as "one of Cambodia's few independent news outlets".
He also acts as a political commentator for the station. Sonando has been imprisoned three times on charges related to his reporting: a 2003 arrest for "inciting riots", a 2005 arrest for defamation, and a 2012 arrest for insurrection.
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 overturned by an appeals court in March 2013, and Sonando was instead given a five-year suspended sentence on charges of causing civil unrest.