(Photo: SRP)Cambodian high court says lawmaker defamed prime minister
Wed, 02 Jun 2010
DPA
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling that an opposition legislator had defamed Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The court also upheld a 4,000-dollar fine against former women's affairs minister Mu Sochua.
Speaking outside the Supreme Court, she called the ruling "a travesty of justice" and pledged to go to jail rather than pay.
"I have been found guilty of a crime I have not committed," she said. "This is not justice. This is justice for sale, and for the powerful people only."
Mu Sochua and several dozen supporters from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party then tried to march to the annual meeting of foreign donors, which began Wednesday.
But armed riot police blocked their path, and they were forced to abandon the march.
Donors are expected to pledge around 1 billion dollars to the government during the two-day conference.
Mu Sochua said donor nations must exert pressure on Phnom Penh.
"You have as much responsibility as any development partner to hold the government to account," she said. "And that means justice, equality, a fair trial and human rights that must be upheld for Cambodia to move forward."
Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling was the culmination of a yearlong battle between Mu Sochua and the prime minister.
It began after a speech in which Hun Sen used the term "strong leg," described by some as derogatory, against an unnamed woman from Kampot province.
Mu Sochua, who represents Kampot province, said the comment was aimed at her and was defamatory. Hun Sen countersued, saying that her allegation of defamation was itself defamatory.
Her case was dismissed in court, her lawyer quit after coming under political pressure.
The case against the opposition lawmaker was one of several brought against the government's critics over the past 18 months, and led to fears of increasing repression.
The court also upheld a 4,000-dollar fine against former women's affairs minister Mu Sochua.
Speaking outside the Supreme Court, she called the ruling "a travesty of justice" and pledged to go to jail rather than pay.
"I have been found guilty of a crime I have not committed," she said. "This is not justice. This is justice for sale, and for the powerful people only."
Mu Sochua and several dozen supporters from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party then tried to march to the annual meeting of foreign donors, which began Wednesday.
But armed riot police blocked their path, and they were forced to abandon the march.
Donors are expected to pledge around 1 billion dollars to the government during the two-day conference.
Mu Sochua said donor nations must exert pressure on Phnom Penh.
"You have as much responsibility as any development partner to hold the government to account," she said. "And that means justice, equality, a fair trial and human rights that must be upheld for Cambodia to move forward."
Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling was the culmination of a yearlong battle between Mu Sochua and the prime minister.
It began after a speech in which Hun Sen used the term "strong leg," described by some as derogatory, against an unnamed woman from Kampot province.
Mu Sochua, who represents Kampot province, said the comment was aimed at her and was defamatory. Hun Sen countersued, saying that her allegation of defamation was itself defamatory.
Her case was dismissed in court, her lawyer quit after coming under political pressure.
The case against the opposition lawmaker was one of several brought against the government's critics over the past 18 months, and led to fears of increasing repression.
34 comments:
This is a predictable result of the court's decision.
This is the court of dictatorship country, not democracy country.
This kind of court is used to protect the power of the ruler and the rich.
She will be Ang San Suji of Cambodia
Mu is a stupid woman, she talks justice with thieves, Hun Sen is a bandit, he will never able to understand laws, his lawers are just piece of shit, they don't come from school but from jungle, they learned how to lie, cheat, crook..
The Cambodian judges are just a band of monkeys that know nothing about laws, what they know is how to kiss Hun Sen ass.
Hi,
Another candidate for "American Idiots Contests" Good luck to you Simon cowell to deal with the three idiots:
1- Sam Rainsy, President of SRaingshit Party,
2-Son Chhay, President of KIdiot Blog,
3- Mu Sochua,new idiot candidate
How poor America with these three idiots as American citizens!
Donor Country must exert pressure? How can it be Hun Sen is the erson who talk to them! I felt sorry for mis Mu I fear for her in Jail. She must understand how the KR treat people in Jail they can make anything happened. The Donors don't give a sh*t they only care about their influence on small country like Cambodia. They simply turn their blind eye to cruelty and injustice. Many people who stand up to this Government are victimize this this mad regime who shamelessly fabricate any thing to fit their madness.
Let's us all come out to protest against this regime around the globe!
the democracy from west countries find no place here, where only the dictator and only once man cann say,
shame the west countries helping communist regime to sovirval into form of dictator.
Mu Mu deserves it. She brought this case upon herself. If she doesn't believe the court can provide her with justice, why bring this case to court and try to sue Hun Sen in the first place. Now since HS sue her back and won, she cry the court unfair. The same as Sam Rainsy losing the case to Hor Nam Hong again and again in France and still cannot accept that he lose the case.
Who said the word strong leg is a bad word! The word Jeung Klang is a complimentary. Meaning a strong person, strong mind, a fighter.
CAMBODIA LAW +HUN SEN =ARCH KDOR YOUN
In a REPUBLIC OF BANANA likes Cambodia, victims must be jailed if offender is a CPP member or supporter. We call that country run by BANDITS.
What Mis Mu does is called gut, she knew the outcome but it's a state of the truth, the Donors country must realise the truth she has put herself up for justice to be heard that's the spirit of a heroin
She stands for the right of the Khmer women who are bad mouth by the the dominaent man including the Priminister himself Hun Sen the mad dog
cambodians are under cambodia's laws, cambodia's laws are under moron hunsen's laws, moron hun sen's laws are under Ngnuyen Tan Dung's laws.it's ashamed to those act as judge for hun sen.
Hun Sen, Hor Nam Hong, Hor Nambora, Sok An, Hen Samrin, Chea Sim, Ky Tech, the judges, the ministers, state secretaries, and everyone of these bastards, including their foreign advisors, who is helping to uphold this system of oppression, corruption, and sub-servience to Vietnam should be put on trial at the first opportunity. The jail terms ought to be life without parole, in darkness for 23 hours a day. For now, each and everyone of them is thinking that that opportunity will never arise. I guess Pol Pot was thinking the same thing when he had every Khmer fearing for their life, unable and unwilling to help fellow Khmers. But his time came, and their time will come.
AhKoun chke, why don't you bark when the Khmer Rouge were killing Cambodian by the millions. Now Cambodia are at peace and prosper, why are u idiot so mad about it!!!
Hi,
Another candidate for "American Idiots Contests" Good luck to you Simon cowell to deal with the three idiots:
1- Sam Rainsy, President of SRaingshit Party,
2-Son Chhay, President of KIdiot Blog,
3- Mu Sochua,new idiot candidate
How poor America with these three idiots as American citizens!
Ah Chkout,Ah Kwak ,or Ah kon Me Som Phuerng youn.why you're so cruelty as ah Kwak hun sen .Don't you turn on your fuken ball eyes aruond you?how many poor khmer farmers are landlleass to survive. Don't be fool by Youn pusyy poison,if you're khmer citizen. fuck you ah youn Kro torp Ah Youn aggressor.
cpp'leaders former khmer rouge was created bycommunist vietnamese gorvernment to destroy khmer ppls and control over cambodia.
hun sen Prime Minister of gang Youn mafia in cambodia,hor Nam hong President of khmer'killer in Bouerng .Va Kim hong President of vietnamese prostitution in Younbodia. Phai si phan is president of younbodia oversea pussy licker.
Ah Choy Marai Pouk Ah look Khour Oy Youn tver Barp Khmer khnear Aeng.
Hun Sen has just one eye strong like this what about two eyes how strong he is?
Kmeng Wat smos!
If SenVarman has two eyes, then he ain't become PM, 'cause he will simply or gradually see and understand we Khmer are suffocatingly dying!
All modern leaders are insanely enough to kill our innocent Khmers and unconscientiously giving anything to please their Masters, like SihanoukVarman killing Khmers in order to please Frenchmen, so does SenVarman to please Youn.
idiot 9:14pm ,i know, he's very strong that's why Young youn girls like him.but your dick 10000000 times stronger than hun sen then it's death later.is that correct? remember NOthing is permminent on earth Commrad!
6:38PM,
You are a fucking idiot! Did you even know the case? Ethically ah kwak should not have won. This motherfucker abuses his power to controle them pathetic judiciary system in Cambodia.
You are fucking moron motherfucker to have think Hun Xen won fair and square. You know as well the law in Cambodia is under ah kwak lips!
9:14PM,
How's hun xen strong? Do you really think he's that smart? He only seems strong to unarmed poor Khmer citizens which he have his master youn behind him. If he strong try to walk alone on khmer soil. He'll be dead in a blink of an eye.
However, he is strong very strong in killing and abusing poor khmer. He is strong in selling the nation. He is strong in corruption. He is strong in destroying cambodia and cambodians. If that's what you call strong!
Dear kmeng wat
If Hun has two eyes perhaps Sreh Kmok turn to be desert in two years,that why God donated to him only one.
naak som reh
The reality is that truth is a perfect defense, so if she could have shown that her statements towards the PM were true, she would have won.
Fortunately for her, the PM asked that Article 63 be changed to strictly a civil matter, and not criminal as it was before otherwise she would be in jail. She's lucky- she got publicity, got to tour and raise money for her appearances in the US, and didn't have to do her job in the National Assembly during her long absence. Pay the fine and move on-but no, she's more interested in being the victim of injustice.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered 10 Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed 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.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
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
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
"Hun Sen has just one eye strong like this what about two eyes how strong he is?
Kmeng Wat smos!
9:14 PM"
To find out! you can give one of your fucking eye to ah Kwack or ahk ah Kwack to kille himself andreborn with normal eyes and braine!
Wake up all Khmer in Cambodia. Rise up now before time is running out.
I thinks most of the Khmer people they're scares they won't rise up against ah Kwack Hun shit CPP regime. If you're keep scares they gonna keeps suppress on you. Come on poeple be braves so you could have a better lifes.
THAT'S A KANGAROO COURT. REMEMBER THIS IS A COMMUNIST PEOPLE PARTY ( CPP ).
USA must do the same to Khmer as it did to the middle east or else, the evil will continue to grow stronger and stronger. You must eliminate Hun Sen and his family for good, do it just like you did to Sadam Hunsen, ok.
Do you believe in the US court ???
If you do, then bring the case here.
She from the US and proud to be a US citizen. She has nothing to loose in her beloved country (US).
Prove it to the world that you are right, are you ????
5:10 PM,
Sam Rainsy is from France and
Son Chhay is from Australia.
Don't be so ignorant and stupid!
i don't think they charged her on crime committed or didn't commit; it more of bad attitude and disrespect for cambodia gov't, really! yes, there is a right way to do business and a wrong way as well. choose wisely, ok!
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