PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's United Nations (UN)-backed tribunal has agreed to consider an appeal against a decision to free the regime's former 'First Lady' after she was deemed unfit for trial, a court statement said on Sunday.
Judges on Thursday ordered Ieng Thirith, the only female leader charged by the court, to be released after medical experts said she suffers from memory loss and most likely has Alzheimer's disease.
But prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal appealed against the decision a day later.
In a statement, dated Nov 19 and released on Sunday, the tribunal's supreme court chamber granted the prosecutors' request to stay the release order, saying the appeal is 'not manifestly unfounded'.
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