Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Court summons opposition MP even though his parliamentary is not lifted yet

Prey Veng SRP MP Chea Poch

21 Sept 2010
By Vipheak
Khmer Machas Srok
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Click here to read the article in Khmer


Prey Veng SRP MP Chea Poch was very disappointed that he was summoned by the Phnom Penh municipal court to show up on 29 September 2010 so that he could be sentenced in the defamation lawsuit case brought up against him in August 2004. The summons was issued to him while he is still a full Member of Parliament and his parliamentary immunity has not been lifted yet for the legal proceedings to take place.

Chea Poch told Khmer Machas Srok in the morning of 21 September that: “If they want to sentence me, then my parliamentary immunity must be lifted first before I can be sentenced, but, I still hold my immunity and yet they summon me for a sentencing session.”

During the past two years, opposition officials – both MPs and local representatives – were implicated in many lawsuits brought up against them by the ruling CPP party and by CPP officials. Opposition officials and civil society organizations indicated that this is a dangerous political game led by the ruling CPP party.

According to Chea Poch, the accusation made against him started in 2004-2005 when he and opposition leader Sam Rainsy said that Prince Ranariddh received two planes from Hun Xen. At that time, the National Assembly lifted his and Sam Rainsy’s immunities after the court made a request to that effect. However, in 2006, following a political arrangement concluded between Ranariddh and Hun Xen, Chea Poch’s immunity was restored.

Nevertheless, Chea Poch said cautiously that he will ask his lawyer to follow up on this case.

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:58 PM

    I said many times again and again that all elected MP of the opposition have to flee Cambodia to UN office to rally about problem in Cambodia. Only elected MP have the mandate to report and to represente Cambodian at all levels in the international organisation. Only all of them together can make a success complain. If they are still waiting for luck from Chea Sim or from Hun Sen, they will be died very soon and Cambodian will be disappeared very soon.
    Make no mistake. Begging CPP for Mr Sam Ransy return is no different to beg crocodile to open their mouth when you are stucked in their mouth already.

    Areak Prey

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  2. Anonymous3:11 PM

    tolaka pouk ah CPP douch chea banhkeuth roeung hosh heth

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  3. Anonymous5:11 PM

    Chea Proch, talkative MP, should be charged for what he said.

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  4. Anonymous7:59 PM

    Cambodia is a KINGDOM OF BANANA and it's going to be a KINGDOM OF BANANA UNDER DICTATOR, keep voting for CPP and Cambodians will see..

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  5. Anonymous8:27 PM

    This is a small issue shouldn't sue for defamation the government should have more open mind about criticize to show thier profestional in politic other wise they would look like neaklang.

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  6. Anonymous11:44 PM

    All people must be under law and equal rights before law, this is rule of law. MP has immunity but it does not mean that he has rights to express everything what he want without responsibility. Cambodia should get strict policy to enforce all people to have to respect law. Opponents should be well known about this. Prison is an appropriate thing for him.

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  7. Anonymous12:49 AM

    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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  8. Anonymous2:15 AM

    លូតប៉ិចក្ដិចចោលឥតបីស្ដាយ
    ធាត់ធំរូបកាយតែពួកអញ
    កុំចង់មកមកលឬផ្ចាលផ្ចាញ់
    យើងជាស្ដេចក្រាញ់កម្ពុជា ។

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