Showing posts with label Iron fist. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Hun Sen's iron fist's grip on the court system not that strong after all?

PM Seeks Redress for Release of Sex Crimes Suspects

Mean Veasna
VOA Khmer
Washington
21/02/2007


Prime Minister Hun Sen asks the Justice Ministry to file a complaint against the Appeals Court after it freed without trial a hotel owner and others accused of sex crimes.

Hun Sen makes his request during an annual meeting for the Cambodian National Council for Women.

The Appeals Court released Tae Paoli, owner of the Chhay Huor II Hotel, in 2006, after what some groups say was an insubstantial trial.

Opposition party leader Sam Rainsy calls the request political in light of April’s commune elections.

Justice Minister Ang Vong Vatana says he has submitted documents to the Supreme Council of Magistracy, which oversees Cambodian courts.