Opposition leader Sam Rainsy (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)
CONVICTION EVIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT ATTEMPT TO REMOVE SAM RAINSY FROM POLITICSThe Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) condemns today’s political ruling by the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First that found Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy guilty of falsifying public documents and disinformation. The verdict provides further evidence that the Cambodian judiciary is being used as a political tool of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to undermine legitimate political opposition. In this instance, the misuse of the courts may have ended the career of one of Cambodia’s most popular politicians.
The charges related to Sam Rainsy’s alleged alteration of a United Nations map of Cambodia to falsely show an encroachment onto Cambodian territory by Vietnam, which he subsequently posted on the Sam Rainsy Party website. However, the CCHR notes with concern that only limited documentary evidence and testimony supporting this allegation was presented at trial. Sam Rainsy, who was tried in absentia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for falsification of public documents and disinformation, and ordered to pay a 5 million riel fine and 60 million riels in compensation to the RGC for both offences. The lack of legal basis on which the verdict was reached and the severity of the sentence imposed underscores the political nature of the trial and sends a clear message to opposition parliamentarians and others willing to question the policies and actions of the RGC.
Today’s conviction is another in a series of politicised judicial measures against Sam Rainsy. In January, Rainsy was convicted of disinformation and inciting racial discrimination and, as reported in The Phnom Penh Post on Tuesday, a court summons for Rainsy has been issued dating back to a two year old defamation and disinformation complaint filed by Foreign Minister Hor Namhong. The CCHR calls on the RGC to end its use of the judicial system as a political tool to attack the opposition and to silence dissenting opinion. Cambodia needs active opposition parties to provide a strong, stable, multiparty democracy in the Kingdom, and an independent and impartial judiciary to uphold rule of law.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Ou Virak, President, CCHR
Tel: +855 12 404051
Email: ouvirak@cchrcambodia.org
The charges related to Sam Rainsy’s alleged alteration of a United Nations map of Cambodia to falsely show an encroachment onto Cambodian territory by Vietnam, which he subsequently posted on the Sam Rainsy Party website. However, the CCHR notes with concern that only limited documentary evidence and testimony supporting this allegation was presented at trial. Sam Rainsy, who was tried in absentia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for falsification of public documents and disinformation, and ordered to pay a 5 million riel fine and 60 million riels in compensation to the RGC for both offences. The lack of legal basis on which the verdict was reached and the severity of the sentence imposed underscores the political nature of the trial and sends a clear message to opposition parliamentarians and others willing to question the policies and actions of the RGC.
Today’s conviction is another in a series of politicised judicial measures against Sam Rainsy. In January, Rainsy was convicted of disinformation and inciting racial discrimination and, as reported in The Phnom Penh Post on Tuesday, a court summons for Rainsy has been issued dating back to a two year old defamation and disinformation complaint filed by Foreign Minister Hor Namhong. The CCHR calls on the RGC to end its use of the judicial system as a political tool to attack the opposition and to silence dissenting opinion. Cambodia needs active opposition parties to provide a strong, stable, multiparty democracy in the Kingdom, and an independent and impartial judiciary to uphold rule of law.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Ou Virak, President, CCHR
Tel: +855 12 404051
Email: ouvirak@cchrcambodia.org
6 comments:
Hun Sen is implementing DICTATORSHIP in Cambodia.
Cambodia will remain KINGDOM OF BANANA under Hun Sen.
Samrainsy has to be in jail in Cambodia.Who want to be in jail has to do like sam rainsy.
Poor CPP members and supporters,
the band of monkeys,
Sam Rainsy and his children live outside
but you and your children, you live under dictatorship for ever,
you will never know what is freedom,
DUMP.
sam rainsy has no popular support from majority khmer people inside! partly due to his failure to educate the general public, partly due to his own "odd" ball style!
they say when in rome do what the romans do. if not, you are the odd ball, really! good luck!
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
Hun Sen...
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's leaders and members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth...
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.
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