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| Beehive radio director Mam Sonando appears at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in September. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post |
05 March 2013
By Abby Seiff
The Phnom Penh Post
As lawyers and court officials put the finishing touches on preparations for the three-day Appeal Court hearing of the case of independent radio station owner Mam Sonando, which starts this morning, hundreds of his supporters began streaming toward Phnom Penh yesterday.
More than 1,000 people are expected to turn up in support of the imprisoned broadcaster, said Association of Democrats Secretary-General Huon Pannary. By yesterday afternoon, several hundred had arrived in Kampong Thom province, from where they planned to depart, en masse, this morning.
“The numbers depend on [Tuesday] morning. Maybe [the authorities] are going to stop them [from entering Phnom Penh],” said Pannary,
In October, the Beehive radio director was sentenced to 20 years in prison on insurrection charges, which have been roundly dismissed as spurious. Sonando stands accused of stoking a secessionist movement in Kratie province – a justification authorities used to evict hundreds of families in an April raid that left a 14-year-old girl dead.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court trial took three days and included dozens of testimonies, but rights groups pointed out that nothing in the way of credible evidence was presented.
In a statement released yesterday, Amnesty International called the sentence “inexplicable and baseless” and urged the court to overturn the lower court ruling.
Though hesitant to make any predictions, defence lawyer Sam Sokong said he was trying to remain optimistic.
“If we look back to the judgment from the Phnom Penh court, I think the judgment still has many mistakes. I hope that the Appeal Court will review all the evidence, all the documents. I hope that the Appeal Court will proceed with the hearing with a fair trial,” he said.
The 71-year-old Sonando, for his part, was the picture of calm and confidence yesterday, said Sokong shortly after visiting him in Prey Sar prison.
“He told me he still believes [he will be released], because he is not guilty. He still believes justice will be provided for him.”
3 comments:
យួនបង្កើត ក្រុមខ្មែរវៀតមិញ!
យួនក៏បង្កើត ក្រុមខ្មែរវៀតមិញថ្មី គឺ :
-អាស្វា សម រង្សី
-អាស្វា កឹម សុខា,និង
-មីស្វា មួ សុខហួ សំរាប់សង្រ្គោះអាយួនដែរ!
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បើខ្មែរចង់សើច...សូមកុំទៅបោះឆ្នោតជាមួយយួន!
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បើខ្មែរចង់យំ អស់ដី........បោះឆ្នោតទៀតទៅ!
VC told Hun Sen to put Mam Sonando and Sam Rainsy in jail, but sadly Hun Sen did as told. But if Hun is smart like the VC and the Chinese, he should turn around and say 'this is my county, I will not put my fellow brothers and sisters in jail for your benefit'. In the political world, life is like a 'yin and yang' or 'pro and con' , without it, the gov't system will not be effective.
it is likely to be doomed soon or later. Today, Viets and Chinese are sending thousands of students to study in the west and once they completed, they are encouraged to go back home to help to run the nation and country. But in Cambodia, those neighbouring country are taking advantage of us and our downfall and trying to push us to the corner by directing our leader like Hun Sen to destroy his own educated people and then what? leaving Hun Sen as their puppet and slave to them at the end of the day.
They did this before to Kingta and Pol Pot, they promised them the world, but in the end only to lead to stray. They used the tactic of 'killing two bird with one stone'. They put on the fuel and fired them, then, they said 'khmers killed khmers' and then, they laugh....In the end Kingta and Pol Pot said 'we have been betrayed by VC, we believed in them and now they ruined all of us'. In addition, they did this to the U.S armies too. They let their Viet whores to lure all the soldiers and then killed them after having sex during WWII known as the 'Tet Attack'.
Today, everyone around the world knows what the VC are capable off 'killing two birds with one stone'. Hun Sen please wake up, please let Mam Sonando and other educated ones go for the benefit of our nation. Please try to learn from the past and then you will see the future, e.g Loas, Champa, Khmer Khrom, khmer indigenous etc...don't let history repeat itself. Please be smarter.
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