Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
THE Svay Rieng provincial court has denied a request to delay hearings against Sam Rainsy in a case that finds him accused of destruction of property and racial incitement in connection with a protest on the Vietnamese border, the opposition leader’s lawyer said Monday.
“I requested that the court postpone my client’s hearing because he is currently working abroad. I wrote a letter to the court president, but my request was dismissed,” Choung Chou Ngy, Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, said. “The court said that my request lacked a proper justification.”
The court has yet to schedule a hearing in the case, Choung Chou Ngy added. Sam Rainsy is in Europe, having met with the European Parliament in Belgium and the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Switzerland last month.
The leader of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party faces charges in connection with an October incident in which he led villagers in Svay Rieng’s Chantrea district to the Vietnamese border, where they uprooted border markers in protest of what they said were continued encroachments by the neighbouring country into Cambodian territory. The SRP staged an additional protest there earlier this month.
Two men – Chantrea district villagers Meas Srey and Prom Chea – were arrested last week after allegedly participating in Sam Rainsy’s protest.
Svay Rieng court President Koam Chhean said he had received the request from Choung Chou Ngy and had forwarded it to investigating judge Long Kesphyrum, explaining that he lacked the authority to rule on this issue.
“This is the investigating judge’s task. I have nothing to say because it is his work, and he did not tell me about it,” Koam Chhean said.
Long Kesphyrom could not be reached for comment on Monday.
“I requested that the court postpone my client’s hearing because he is currently working abroad. I wrote a letter to the court president, but my request was dismissed,” Choung Chou Ngy, Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, said. “The court said that my request lacked a proper justification.”
The court has yet to schedule a hearing in the case, Choung Chou Ngy added. Sam Rainsy is in Europe, having met with the European Parliament in Belgium and the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Switzerland last month.
The leader of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party faces charges in connection with an October incident in which he led villagers in Svay Rieng’s Chantrea district to the Vietnamese border, where they uprooted border markers in protest of what they said were continued encroachments by the neighbouring country into Cambodian territory. The SRP staged an additional protest there earlier this month.
Two men – Chantrea district villagers Meas Srey and Prom Chea – were arrested last week after allegedly participating in Sam Rainsy’s protest.
Svay Rieng court President Koam Chhean said he had received the request from Choung Chou Ngy and had forwarded it to investigating judge Long Kesphyrum, explaining that he lacked the authority to rule on this issue.
“This is the investigating judge’s task. I have nothing to say because it is his work, and he did not tell me about it,” Koam Chhean said.
Long Kesphyrom could not be reached for comment on Monday.
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CPP - Cambodian People's Party, is it really? or "Communist People's Party"?
This hearing should not be taking place at all...
ខ្មែរទាំងតូចទាំងធំ កំពុងស្រុះគ្នាចូល
សហព័ន្ធ ខ្មែរបាក់ស្បាតតាំងពីយួន
បានប្រើកលល្បិចយកដៃខ្មែរ
សម្លាប់ខ្មែរពីឆ្នាំ ៧០មក រហូតពេល
នេះវាចូលត្រួតត្រាបានដាក់កម្មវិធី
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មន្រ្តីខាងច្បាប់យួនមកជួយពង្រឹង
អ្នកច្បាប់ខ្មែរ គិតទៅស្រុកខ្មែរ
សម្បូរបណ្ឌិតណាស់ តែយួនវាមិន
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The COWARDS hold a hearing when they know everyone is enjoying the holiday season. Why the hiding and the darkness all the time? Why are they so afraid of Sam Rainsy?
2:45AM not Rainsy they afraid!They afraid of people knowledge of true.
Sam Rainsy,
Come back to Cambodia to face justice.
You had a good enough time already visiting whore houses in France.
The party is now over for you.
Come back now, you coward.
The Khmer people will be waiting for you.
Real Khmer living in Cambodia (not the porn-watching, dick-jerking oversea Khmer)
Cambodian court acts like thief because juges are monkeys nominated by monkeys to apply monkey laws.
Hey that is not fair by using the court in the wrong time and not allow the defender to postpone the cases. By using the court to kill or jail people that are innocent that is the wrong thing do and in-acceptable, there under million Cambodian and foreigners observers , it looks so bizarre twist and also lack of juridical independent but mockery and joking to the world justice systems very shameful and very disturb to visit and mention that I am an Cambodian to the world . Cambodian used to born to be the master but not for now.
Where are the 20 or more CPP members whom the Khmer Rouge Tribunal wants to trial for the atrocities charges during the Khmer Rouge era? The court can issue the warrant for the arrests of those former Khmer Rouge but Hun Sen will not implement it. Lol.
Hun Sen was sought for treason charges in Pol Pot's Cambodia, so why didn't Hun Sen return to Cambodia to be tried then? Lol.
Hun Sen did not show up in court for the case brought against him. Lol.
Hun Sen, you have not yet answered charges against your crimes yet. Why did you engineered a coup against the legitimate first prime minister Rannaridth in 1997? Lol.
CPP members,
when you finish to rembourse Yuons ?
You are killing your fathers and your mothers souls.
You are selling your grand children futures.
You will die in the few years but your grand children will pay all their lives.
cpp court in Svay Rieng should wake up and work for Khmer people don't work for hyena viet.Hyena eventually killing you and your children soon when there are no nationalist like H.E Sam Rainsy.
We Khmer people should look up to and we should have millions more patriots like H.E Sam Rainsy,without him viet demarcate its border right in front of the Khmer National Assembly and then heng samrin would has 10 stars already.
Thank you H.E Sam Rainsy that working so hard for Cambodia.
Haha 3:03 am You are funny dude. I think you are jealous bcuz you don't have TV or know to jerkoff in front of TV yourself.
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