2010-07-15
By SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press
A Cambodian opposition lawmaker convicted of defaming the country's prime minister has refused to pay a court-ordered fine, though her defiance could land her in prison.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered Mu Sochua of the Sam Rainsy Party to pay 8.5 million riel ($2,000) to the state and another 8 million riel ($1,882) in compensation to Prime Minister Hun Sen, following her conviction last August. The deadline was Thursday, but no action was immediately taken against her.
Mu Sochua insisted she would not pay the money, and was prepared to go to prison, for what could be up to six months. She claims the court's ruling was politically motivated.
Government and judicial officials were unavailable for comment Thursday, though they deny the courts are under political influence.
The case is one of a series Hun Sen's government has filed to intimidate critics in the opposition and the press. After Mu Sochua's conviction, the New York-based based group Human Rights Watch said the prime minister had "a long history of trying to muzzle Cambodia's political opposition and undermine the independence of the legal profession."
On Wednesday, the U.N. expressed concern about the proceedings.
"We believe this highly politicized case appears to show an alarming erosion of both freedom of expression and the independence of the judiciary in Cambodia," said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
The case against Mu Sochua was filed after she attempted to sue the prime minister for defamation, after he used offensive language in what appeared to be a reference to her in two speeches. Her suit was dropped by the court, which ruled it groundless.
Speaking to reporters at her party headquarters in the capital Phnom Penh, Mu Sochua said she didn't fear being arrested.
"I have vowed that I would not pay compensation, and I am ready to go to prison," she said. "I have done nothing wrong. I did not do any thing that violated the law."
Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered Mu Sochua of the Sam Rainsy Party to pay 8.5 million riel ($2,000) to the state and another 8 million riel ($1,882) in compensation to Prime Minister Hun Sen, following her conviction last August. The deadline was Thursday, but no action was immediately taken against her.
Mu Sochua insisted she would not pay the money, and was prepared to go to prison, for what could be up to six months. She claims the court's ruling was politically motivated.
Government and judicial officials were unavailable for comment Thursday, though they deny the courts are under political influence.
The case is one of a series Hun Sen's government has filed to intimidate critics in the opposition and the press. After Mu Sochua's conviction, the New York-based based group Human Rights Watch said the prime minister had "a long history of trying to muzzle Cambodia's political opposition and undermine the independence of the legal profession."
On Wednesday, the U.N. expressed concern about the proceedings.
"We believe this highly politicized case appears to show an alarming erosion of both freedom of expression and the independence of the judiciary in Cambodia," said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
The case against Mu Sochua was filed after she attempted to sue the prime minister for defamation, after he used offensive language in what appeared to be a reference to her in two speeches. Her suit was dropped by the court, which ruled it groundless.
Speaking to reporters at her party headquarters in the capital Phnom Penh, Mu Sochua said she didn't fear being arrested.
"I have vowed that I would not pay compensation, and I am ready to go to prison," she said. "I have done nothing wrong. I did not do any thing that violated the law."
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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.
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
"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."
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 detonate 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 Vietnam 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.
Who killed 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples?
a) Pol Pot
b) Nuon Chea
c) Ta Mok
d) Khieu Samphan
e) Son Sen
f) Kaing Kek Iev
g) Ieng Sary
h) Ieng Thearith
i) Hun Sen
j) Chea Sim
k) Heng Samrin
l) Hor Namhong
m) Keat Chhon
n) Ouk Bunchhoeun
o) Sim Ka
p) all of above
Source:
DC-CAM
Who killed Chea Vichea?
a) Hun Sen
b) Hok Lundy
c) Huy Piseth
d) Phan Sary
e) Oum Chamnane
f) hit man #3
g) hit man #4
h) Hun Sen's personal bodyguard unit (Brigade 70)
i) Hun Sen's Death Squad
j) Bon Na
k) Keov Vichet
l) all of above
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MP Mu Suchua will pay the fines soon without doubt, that for sure.
New Phally
Which one of these Khmer Rouge(s) list below is a chief of Boeung Trabek prison?
a) Pol Pot
b) Nuon Chea
c) Ta Mok
d) Khieu Samphan
e) Son Sen
f) Kaing Kek Iev
g) Ieng Sary
h) Ieng Thearith
i) Hun Sen
j) Chea Sim
k) Heng Samrin
l) HOR NAMHONG
m) Keat Chhon
n) Ouk Bunchhoeun
o) Sim Ka
Source:
DC-CAM
the prime minister who conflicts with srey in the world is hun sen
Yes, the New York-based based group Human Rights Watch, UN, US, European Union and the world have to do some thing about this doggy Hun Sen government. Otherwise, Hun Sen still thinks that whatever he does is OK to do. Topple doggy Hun Sen himself from power is THE BEST option.
Freedom lover, WA
Which one of these terrorist organization list below responsible for a Grenade Attack on March 30, 1997 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia?
a) Hun Sen's Death Squad
b) Hun Sen's personal bodyguard unit (Brigade 70)
c) Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
d) Cambodian Freedom Fighter
e) Al Qaeda
f) a,b and c
Source:
STATEMENT OF HENG PEOV
Heng Peov hold position as the chief of Bureau of Anti Narcotic in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
http://ia311543.us.archive.org/1/items/HengPoevStatementofHengPoev/Statement_of_Heng_Peov.pdf
Fact:
Hun Sen's Death Squad members
Hun Sen
Hok Lundy
Huy Piseth
Phan Sary
Oum Chamnane...
Hun Sen's personal bodyguard unit (Brigade 70)
1:08AM I 100% agreed with you.hun sen he doesn't know himself who he is,his ancestors are Khmer nation but hun sen is protecting vietcong(hyenas)to encroach Khmer's border and let let these thieves create rain,storm in Cambodia.
I and most Cambodian people not hate hun sen if he serve Cambodian and his country in the right way.
If Mr.Penh Sovann still in power,Cambodia wouldn't be a lot of troubles like today.
Regarding on MP MU SOCHUA and hun sen case,hun sen is 100% wrong,hun sen also knew that he is not right but he turn the case backward by purpose.It is my first time in my life that I heard a prime minister sue a lady with a none national issue like hun sen did.
hun sen should end this inessential issue and should look beyond the border before your death come in order to maintain your family,your name in good history.
Hun Sen,I know that you are riding on a dangerous tiger back,if I were you I have to find the way out from that tiger and if I can not,I rather sacrifice myself for my nation,my country and my younger generation to come.
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Madam Mu Sochua, you are quite right that YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG and YOU DID NOT DO ANYTHING THAT VIOLATED THE LAW, and why would you have to surrender yourself for the abuser. Mu you have the rights to defend yourself.
I overSEE
I don't think oily and thick face woman Mu Sochua is brave enough not pay the fine but happy to serve jail time. In 2008, when a coward Sam Rainsy was fine 10 Million Riel by the NEC during national election campaign, he always refused to pay the fine, but when he had run out of option and no where to go, on 26 February 2009, SRP officer brought money to pay off the fine.
As for Mu Sochua's case, she has been used the same tactic like her boss. If she goes to jail, she won't dare to spend the whole jail term, but she might spend a short time in jail to promote her political stunt and then instructs someone as her lawyer to pay the fine.
Disgraced Mu Sochua and Sam Rainsy as well as other SRP supporters, they are brave only in front of microphone or computer but when they face with jail time, they will bow their head to the ground or run away to overseas. Indeed, they are shameless in speaking louder more than they can do because they are thick face group and loser.
Khmer in Sydney CBD
Breaking News, Ah Sen, called Ah Nal is assassinated this afternoon. This could be that Youn is no longer needing this dog. Please call friends and families to celebrate ah Hun Nal's death. Cheers.
It's very simple. But you cannot turn time backward. If all the anti-CPP guys are so unhappy with the current regime, why they didn't ask the NATO to intervene and liberate Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge of Pol Pot in 1979 or begged the US Congress not to cut support to Lon Nol's Khmer Republic that led to the Khmer Rouge coming to power in 1975.Then everybody will be happy!!!
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