Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
The Phnom Penh Post
Five men who distributedhundreds of leaflets critical of Prime Minister Hun Sen between the years 2008 and 2011 were sentenced to jail time yesterday by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
The leaflets accused the prime minister of selling Cambodian land to foreign countries, calling him a “traitor” and a “puppet of Vietnam”, municipal court judge Sem Sak Kola said.
She added that the leaflet referred to the ousting of the Khmer Rouge on January 7, 1979, as “the day Vietnam occupied Cambodia”.
The verdict, announced yesterday, found all five dissenters guilty of “inciting the people to commit serious crimes against Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Royal Government of Cambodia”.
Phon Sam Ath, a 26-year-old teacher and former student at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, was arrested on January 27, 2011, in Takeo Province, Sem Sak Kola said. She referred to him as the “mastermind” of the operation, adding that he had written and distributed hundreds of leaflets in both Battambang and Phnom Penh.
Four others – So Khemarak, aged 25, Ngor Menghong, 21, Eang Samorn, 23, and Chem Bol, 27 – were arrested on February 29 in the capital.
Phon Sam Ath and Eang Samorn were both sentenced to two years in prison, while their three collaborators each received 18 months, Sem Sak Kola said. All five were fined two million riel (US$487).
In an interview yesterday, Ouk Syroeun, defence lawyer for So Khemarak, called the verdict “unjust”.
“My client did not commit the crimes he is being accused of…he did not break any laws,” he said, adding that he was asking the court to drop all charges.
Ouk Syroeun yesterday submitted an appeal to the Appeal Court in an effort to overturn the verdict and, he said, to “find justice for [So Khemarak]”. The five convicted could not be reached for comment yesterday.
25 comments:
Hun Sen is nervous about the leaflets....all dictators are afraid of it.....he knows his power is on shaky ground. It's only a matter of time that his structure will collapse under its own deeds. The Law of nature will take over Hun Sen and his clan.
For those who dare to dream, don't give up, it will come sooner than you think.
Hun Sen is having a nightmare every day, he is a paranoia, just look at how many body guards he has. He thinks he is safe, but it's only an illusion. The good thing is that he doesn't know and this is good.
KNM
Hun Sen will get killed after he is out of power . Right now he has 3000 men to protect him . He is the only country leader that has more bodyguards than anyone else in the world. Khmer Ga
He is a brutal dictatorial communism leader on the Globe, this he is worst than Gadaffi. Gadaffi who is dictator but noe sell his land to foreigners but sell all what the old Khmer land has had. So, he is the real traitor like Pol Pot said before he died. Gen. Lon Nol and prince Sarimatak tried to got Khmer land from the hand of Vietnam but Sihanouk make friend with Viet and allow Viet to annex Khmer. Because has a good life, Peking and Pyoung Yang is his resident, what is up in Khmer land is for him shit egal. That is his policy to bring Khmer down.
Hi Everyone,
One of KI-Media member who has his name in Facebook as Khmer Sovannaphumi but his real name is Pang Sokheoun, former political asylum and now living in Sweden. He always copies news from here to post in his facebook profile to promote himself, but right now, he tries to removed and blocked anyone who dares to reveal his con activity particular he tries to hide what he has cheated his wife (Sreypov Chea) by having a girfriend (Sokunthear Som) behind his wife back. Now, his girlfriend had ran way from him after she knew his cheating.
A con man Pang Sokhoeun as well as KI-Media like to insult to the government officers who have affairs, but himself does even worse than other people. What a shame!
very good job, (1 for all)
put those trouble makers in jail for life times, no probation, no mercy
I know pang sokheoun. Only a loser like you that shamlessly try to discredit him everywhere without knowing the truth for your psycophat.
Did the leaflets say the truth ?
In a country that governs remotely by the expansionist, anything that Khmers do to protect our homeland becomes a crime against the government.
This puppet government members should open their eye and look at the massive influx of Yiekcong inside Cambodia. How many ?
How our children are going to survive ?
So sad and so shame just by expressing freedom of speech.Nothing is physical violate,just the truth fact.He,Hun Sen,put innocent people in prison.What a shame!
GOT PREY SAR?
KHMER vs. KHMAI
While Cơṇǵ Câc enjoyed sipping expresso on Hâṇơi Blvd.
COME ON AH HUN SEN! JAIL'S CAMBODIAN STATE UNDER VIETCONG ASS! KHMER UNITED IS PRISON MINE?
Hun Sen never sold but voluntarily gave away Cambodia to foreign evils.
these individuauls are distorted and insane! this is a minority! these people don't understand anything about the rule of law, etc. glad authority detained them all, really! and these unruly people take law into their own hand, i say jail them!
Pang Sokhoeun is just ordinary man but can have affairs behind his wife, if he has power like the CPP, he will be worse than the CPP officers. He has cheatted his wife, who is going to trust him. Only moron who believe what he said.
Its a matter of time.
No currupted power or Prime Monkeys of any kind last forever!
No PRIME MONKEYs of any kind lasts forever.
No one is always strong for ever, now you can put on the jail because they criticize him. But when the God have both God can see who is the Khmer traitor is?
regardless, PUT THIS TROUBLE MAKERS IN JAIL FOR LIFE TIME,
WE WILL NOT ALLOWED THEM TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY,, ANY MORE..
As I came from Pol Pot regime in 1979, fast every where in Cambodia I have only met with Vietnamesse soldiers, nornal Vietnemsse rarely. But at the present fast 40% of Cambodian I see every where, I say the trust why the CPP are so blind say that there has no Vietnamesse in Cambodia? Are those have not Khmer brain at all?
Even, I have some vietnamesses (from Hanoi and Saigon), they tell a lot of his relatives from Hanio are living now in Kampuchea and those are Khmer now and Kampuchea is now under Vietname controll like Laos and Hun Sen work for Vietnamesse.
Khmer krom was lost to Yuon, now khmer Kandal next....wake up!!!!!!
10:59 PM
Here you go again, Hun Sen's dog.
you know!
really!
ok!
etc!
Cambodian do not have freedom of speech. So sure many Khmers HATE Hun sen but are afraid due to the consequences they will face if they tell the truth. We need more people like these brave 5 men to bring Cambodia to prosperity. So sorry for these men.
What should concern Hun Sen is not that there are men distributing leaflets about him, but that these are young men. In a country where young people make up a large percentage of the population, he and his cronies will be in trouble when these young people decide that they've had enough of the corruption, nepotism, the mistrust of fellow Khmers.
What a Shitnamese U R.
ក្លាយជាសត្វគេទុកតាំងពិពរណ៌ហើយ...
9:25 PM
THE KHMER PATRIOTISM AND STRUGGLE FOR TOTAL INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGN AND TERITORIAL INTEGRITY WILL PREVAIL.
ALL KHMER COMPATRIOTS AND PATRIOTS MUST BE UNITED FOR OUR GREAT AND SACRED CAUSE OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.
REMEMBER: WHAT WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF! SO NO FEAR!
Hopefully,this will lead to the ignition of the Khmer Lotus Revolution!
5:52PM
Can you stop putting that kind of shit in KI.
How low can you stand?
I don't think you are Khmer.
We don't have time to read this kind of shit.
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