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It was a moment Jamie Meach thought would never come.

When a Cambodian court sentenced her husband, Meach Sovannara, to 20 years in a hellish prison following what human rights observers dismissed as a “show trial” in 2015, the Long Beach woman feared she had seen him for the last time.

On Saturday, she was happily proved wrong.

Sovannara, a Long Beach resident and Cambodian political activist, was nearly tackled by his wife and daughters when he appeared at Los Angeles International Airport, returning to the U.S.

for the first time in years and marking the end of an international legal saga that many feared would end with his death in a prison cell on the other side of the world.

“I never thought that he would be released,” Jamie Meach said as more than a dozen friends and well-wishers surrounded the family and snapped pictures.

A former teacher and journalist-turned-political activist, Sovannara was acting as a spokesman for the opposition Cambodia Nat