Reuters
Cambodia's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 13-year jail term for an Australian teenager caught carrying heroin en route to Hong Kong, a sentence that angered rights groups when it was first passed in 2005.
Gordon Vuong was caught with 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) of heroin at Phnom Penh airport while traveling to Hong Kong where traffickers had promised to pay him US$1,300, the court heard five years ago.
“This is not right,” his lawyer, Kong Heng, said on the sentence. “He committed the crime when he was only a minor, he was under pressure from traffickers and, as usual for teenagers, he didn't think more carefully when he did it.”
A number of websites have created petitions seeking his transfer to Australia, citing poor prison conditions in Cambodia.
Gordon Vuong was caught with 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) of heroin at Phnom Penh airport while traveling to Hong Kong where traffickers had promised to pay him US$1,300, the court heard five years ago.
“This is not right,” his lawyer, Kong Heng, said on the sentence. “He committed the crime when he was only a minor, he was under pressure from traffickers and, as usual for teenagers, he didn't think more carefully when he did it.”
A number of websites have created petitions seeking his transfer to Australia, citing poor prison conditions in Cambodia.
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ភ្ជំបិណ្ឌឆ្នាំនេះកាន់តែសប្បាយជាឆ្នាំមុនទៅទៀតពោះយើងមាន ស្ពាន ផ្លូវកាន់តែច្រើនជាងឆ្នាំមុនទៀត សៀមរាប ភ្នំពេញ លែងឆ្ងាយដូចមុនទៀតហើយ ខ្ញុំបោះឆ្នោតអោយ CPP ពិតជាត្រូវមែន
My believing that the Vampire Cambodian Police & army take the heroin to put to Gordon Vuong bag and arresting Gordon Vuong to make money for their family, even myselfe, two Vampire Cambodian girls Mrs:Ung SivNgeng was force her cousin sister Mrs:Ung Heav was make up not real story & said that I was rape Mrs:Ung Heav, but I didn't about me to Cambodians Vampire Police to arrested me witout any investigating at all and up up me put in Principal Police Station & Prey Sor Prison in Phnom Penh Cambodia on date 5-5-2010 at 1pm Cambodia time and I was released on date 19-6-2010 in the mornig by the Australian Embassy help me about this matter, even I am Cambodian born still scare Cambodians, my Cambodians peoples after year 1975 more worse than Vampire, from Chung Hak Gov Cambodian Victim from date 5-5-2010 to 19-6-2010 was arrest by unjustice in Cambodia
From years 60 to 70 Cambodians learned how to cheat.
From years 70 to 75 Cambodians praticed how to cheat.
From years 75 to 79 Cambodians matered how to cheat.
From years 79 Cambodians are crook specialist.
From bottom to top.
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