Original report from Phnom Penh
27 August 2009
Seven media organizations have sent a letter to King Norodom Sihamoni asking him to intervene in the prison sentence of an opposition newspaper editor.
Hang Chakra was jailed in June following the publication of a series of articles alleging corruption under the powerful Council Minister Sok An.
The letter asks that the king help intervene through his role as a member of the Supreme Council of Magistracy in interpreting legal matters at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
Pa Nguon Tieng, director of the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, said there had been irregularities in Hang Chakra’s June hearings. After the first hearing, after the defense had asked for more time to collect evidence, the court held a second hearing, sentencing Hang Chakra in absentia, he said.
And Sok Sovann, president of Khmer Journalists for Democracy, said the court should have used the media law passed by the National Assembly in 1995.
Chhoung Chou Ngy, lawyer for Hang Chakra, said he will wait for a response to the request before deciding on whether to appeal the 12-month sentence.
Hang Chakra was jailed in June following the publication of a series of articles alleging corruption under the powerful Council Minister Sok An.
The letter asks that the king help intervene through his role as a member of the Supreme Council of Magistracy in interpreting legal matters at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
Pa Nguon Tieng, director of the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, said there had been irregularities in Hang Chakra’s June hearings. After the first hearing, after the defense had asked for more time to collect evidence, the court held a second hearing, sentencing Hang Chakra in absentia, he said.
And Sok Sovann, president of Khmer Journalists for Democracy, said the court should have used the media law passed by the National Assembly in 1995.
Chhoung Chou Ngy, lawyer for Hang Chakra, said he will wait for a response to the request before deciding on whether to appeal the 12-month sentence.
Fug sok an, may he reaps what he sold soon. Khmer don't need youn to continue to dictate and abuses khmer on khmer soil no more.
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ReplyDeleteBy nature Mr Sok An is a gambler, he would risk anything for the sake of winning, and on top of that he has money and power.
In his blood, as he is ,he would not bow down by the laws and twists anyway he can. He is not a kind of leader with concience to stickby and to achieve national benefits with self sacrifice.
Mr Khiev Sam Phorn is the man with courage and selfishless and open-minded,known to many elites and cambodians, until guilty is proven.
Until cambodia become less interferred by Vietnam, then the truth will come out.
Very grateful to our king for his inititive to intervene the injustice APPILED by justice system in cambodia.Fullfilling his roles prescribed by constitution ensures that cambodia is marching towards peace as defined by 1991 agreement in paris.
This is not a survival of monarchy alone, but a survival of long suffering cambodians.
Long live the King!
God bless Cambodia!
Neang SA
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
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Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leader of the Free Trade Union
Attempted Assassinations on Chea Vichea and Sam Rainsy
Attempted Murders on Chea Vichea and Sam Rainsy
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders members and activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leader of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Being a stooge of Hun Sen, I don't think the king will dare to pardon this poor news reporter. In Cambodia, Hun Sen is in command of everything. As such, don't hold your breath and count on the king for help unless Hun Sen give him the green light to do so.
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