Cambodia prime minister Hun Sen (L) shakes hand with Thai Sivarak Chutipong (3rd-R) after meeting and offered a pardon later at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni granted a pardon on Friday to Sivarak, a Thai engineer sentenced to seven years in jail for leaking the flight schedule of Thaksin. (Reuters)

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, fifth from left, poses for a photograph with Sivarak Chutipong, center, a former Thai airline employee convicted of spying on Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, his mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom, fifth from right, and parliament members from the Peua Thai Party at Hun Sen's residence in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. Cambodia on Monday officially released Sivarak. (AP)