Freed activist Ratree arrives home

Nationalist activist Ratree Pipattanapaibul arrived at the Suvarnabhumi Airport on Friday night, hours after being released from a Cambodian jail earlier in the day.

Her flight from Phnom Penh arrived at the airport at about 10 pm.

She was welcomed at the airport by her family and some 100 members of the Thai Patriots Network and Santi Asoke Buddhist sect. Many of them carried placards with messages welcoming her back to Thailand.

Ratree, imprisoned in Cambodia for trespassing in a military zone, had obtained pardon. In 2011, she was sentenced to six years in prison.

Veera Somkwamkid, head of the nationalist group who was arrested by the Cambodians along with Ratree, saw his eight years' imprisonment reduced by six months.

The pardon was granted to mark the cremation of late Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk.