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Phnom Penh (FN), October 25 - Former opposition senator was pardoned on Wednesday by Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni.

Hong Sok Hour, senator from Sam Rainsy Party was detained in 2015 and later convicted in 2016 to a 7- year imprisonment for falsifying border map with Vietnam.

The pardon was made after Hong Sok Hour wrote a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen expressing an apology.