CANBERRA, Australia — Australian filmmaker James Ricketson took a stroll on a Sydney beach at dawn Monday while recuperating from more than a year in a Cambodian prison, his nephew said. Ricketson, 69, landed in Sydney on Sunday night two days after his 15-month stint in a Phnom Penh prison ended with clemency granted by Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni. The filmmaker had been arrested after flying a drone to photograph an opposition party rally in June 2017. “He was this morning walking on the beach at dawn and … enjoying the freedom and just being amazed at his current situation compared to where he was 24 hours before,” Bim Ricketson told reporters Monday. “I’ll be going back as soon as I can, but I’ll need to recover obviously,” he told reporters upon his arrival in Sydney.

Source: National Post September 24, 2018 03:29 UTC