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| Ros Sokhet is led into a van before being returned to prison after a hearing at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in October 2009. (Photo by: Sovan Philong) |
Monday, 08 November 2010
Tep Nimol
The Phnom Penh Post
A JOURNALIST who was recently released from prison after serving a year on disinformation charges says he will file an appeal today to the Supreme Court to have his conviction quashed and to demand US$120,000 in damages from the government.
Ros Sokhet, who was sentenced to two years in prison after allegedly sending threatening text messages to news anchor Soy Sopheap, was released last month after serving a year in prison. Despite his release, which followed the intervention of Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, Ros Sokhet said he wanted his “whole case” re-investigated.
“If the court increases my jail term, I’ll accept it, but only if the court makes it clear for me,” he said yesterday.
Ros Sokhet said Khieu Kanharith wrote to Justice Minister Ang Vong Vattana on Friday, thanking him for helping secure the journalist’s release.
He added, however, that this was merely a way for the information minister to close the case without addressing the charges he wanted dropped.
But Sam Brochea, a cabinet chief at the Ministry of Justice, said government officials had been working on Ros Sokhet’s release since September, before the journalist said he wrote to officials requesting his release.
Ros Sokhet said he was confident he would be awarded the $120,000 he was seeking in compensation, and that he planned to donate $50,000 to the Sam Rainsy and Human Rights parties for their 2013 national election campaigns.
He also intends to start an anticorruption newspaper that will target Prime Minister Hun Sen and provide a platform for the opposition parties.
7 comments:
LONG LIVE VIET NAM...
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
Province of Viet Nam
Nation Religion KING..
1. You idiot khmer have no nation it is all belong to vietnam now.. we run your country and our brothers and sisters are all over your country and in every level of government.
2. You have no religion becuase look at you even your own country to betrayed look at Hun SEn- CPPP we control thme -- how can they have religion becuase soon will be vietnam province
3. KING what KING-- he can not beg us to keep him there-- so he have to bring his mother which she work for our interested with hun sen and cpp.. then his father to beg us for keep him...
what a loser race. you all should dies and wishes you will never born.. better born as vietnamese you might be a little smarter and maybe love your own kind ans country better..
LONG LIVE VIET NAM.
more money from china is good for our vietnamese brothers and sisters
that hold every level of officials in cambodia that control cambodia.. will use this money to further control cambodia... it is us that the king of cambodia to to beg us the viet nam to keep him there.. good work hun sen-cpp.now we have more money from china
Hanoi killed Muslim and took Champa.
Hanoi killed Khmer Krom and has controlled.
That is Viet’s nature.
Down Vietnamese expansionism!
Vietnam will be wiped out by hurricane!
by Volcano!
by earthquake !
by tsunami !
and by….!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out by hurricane! by Volcano!
by earthquake ! by tsunami waves ! and by….
LONG LIVE CHAMPA !
LONG LIVE KHMER EMPIRE !
LONG LIVE CHAMPA !
LONG LIVE KHMER EMPIRE !
5:47 AM
Anonymous said...
Hanoi killed Muslim and took Champa.
Hanoi killed Khmer Krom and has controlled.
That is Viet’s nature.
Down Vietnamese expansionism!
Vietnam will be wiped out by hurricane!
by Volcano!
by earthquake !
by tsunami !
and by….!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Muslim wakes up then be united to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out by hurricane! by Volcano!
by earthquake ! by tsunami waves ! and by….
LONG LIVE CHAMPA !
LONG LIVE KHMER EMPIRE !
LONG LIVE CHAMPA !
LONG LIVE KHMER EMPIRE !
Soketh - you are far much more smarter and better than ah choy mray Soysopheap. You should join SRP to start your journalist politcal career so when you have chance in the future you can help to clean up corruption in our country.
Glad that you have the gut to become real journalist.
Ethics is needed to have a better and sfe cambodian society.
wow............. can i be your share holder?
Dear! Ros Sokhet
First I will say congretulation to your free from dictator and brutal prison.
According to my oppinion i think you have the right idea plan to creat a anticorruption newspaper in this time. and i hopefull that you will have many reader and supporters to your newspaper in the near future.
One thing that i want to recommendation to your newspaper is try your best to bring the real stories about corruption system in Cambodia to show to our Khmer and to the world.
good luck to you Ros Sokhet
Buddish and God bless you
i don't think it is the case of suppression of freedom, human rights, etc; it is more a case of biased and taking side on politics that gets some individuals in trouble, really! it goes against the ethical codes in the school of journalism, etc, you know! or against company's policy, etc. so, wake up, people tread carefully, that's all!
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