Heng Pov’s lawsuit delayed to 23 August

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

The Federal court of Malaysia, the highest judicial body of Malaysia, has delayed the lawsuit brought by Heng Pov, the former police chief of the city of Phnom Penh, against 3 Malaysian government officials for illegally deporting him to Cambodia, originally scheduled to 18 July, to 23 August instead. Sivananthan, Heng Pov’s Malaysian lawyer, told The Cambodia Daily that after delaying the case once from 28 March to 18 July, the court decided to delay the case further to 23 August without providing any reason behind this delay.

[Malaysia] Court to hear Heng Pov’s application next Monday

Thursday July 5, 2007
The Star (Malaysia)

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has fixed next Monday to hear an application by Cambodia’s deported ex-police chief Heng Pov to cite three senior government officers for contempt.

On March 28, the application was adjourned on the request of the prosecution to allow it time to reply to Heng Pov’s application.

Heng Pov, 52, is seeking to cite Immigration director-general Datuk Wahid Mohd Don, the department’s enforcement director Datuk Ishak Mohamed and the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ deputy head of prosecution Mohd Hanafiah Zakaria for contempt, for deporting him before he had exhausted all avenues of appeal.

Heng Pov, who filed the action in January, had also accused them of orchestrating his premature deportation to Cambodia to serve an 18-year jail sentence for conspiring in the murder of a municipal court judge there.

He was sent home on Dec 21 last year, and an urgent convening of the Federal Court here was too late to stop his deportation.

The action is supported by the affidavit of his wife Ngin Sotheavy.