Danish diplomat taken aback by sentence

Johanne Vinther Axelsen, 55, who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Cambodia for trying to send codeine pills out of the country.
Johanne Vinther Axelsen, 55, who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Cambodia for trying to send codeine pills out of the country.
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Denmark's leading diplomat in Cambodia says he has been taken aback by the 15-year sentence handed down to 55-year-old Johanne Vinther Axelsen, who has been found guilty of trying to send 10,761 codeine pills out of the country.

"We simply don't understand the sentence and we don't yet know what the sentence is based on," Tom Barthel Hansen, Head of the Danish Representation Office in Pnom Penh tells politiken.dk.

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