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Seven MPS members of the Transnational Radical Party called for an amnesty for the Cambodian opposition MP Cheam Channy
Bruxelles, February 7, 2006:
On February 5, the Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni granted amnesty to Sam Rainsy, the leader of the opposition condemned to 18 months of jail for libeling Prime Minister Hun Sen. The announcement of the concession of the amnesty has been made after a letter in which Rainsy refuted to have accused Hun Sen of the attack against a gathering of its party in 1997.
Also another representative of the opposition, Cheam Channy, who spent a year in a military jail after a conviction to seven years for swindle and for conspiracy against the government, was pardoned and was freed on February 6. Sam Rainsy (from his exile in France) and the entire parliamentary group of his party in Cambodia (22 MPs) joined the Transnational Radical Party for the year 2006. The announcement of the amnesty is also a response to an appeal to the King and Prime Minister Hun Sen, launched on February 2, by the radical parliamentarians Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino and co-signed by Bajram Rexhepi, former Prime Minister of Kosovo, Naim Jerliu, Chairman of the Democratic Movement of Kosovo, Gjylnaze Syla, Member of the Parliament of Kosovo, Zlatko Kramaric, liberal member of the Croatian parliament and Giorgio Bogi, Italian member of Parliament from the Democrats of left. In Cambodia, Son Chhay, MP of the Sam Rainsy Party and have been the main actors of the mobilization.
Last January, as a result of a new wave of repressions against opposition's forces, the European Parliament approved almost unanimously an urgent resolution promoted - amongst others –by MEPs Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino of the ALDE group, in order to condemn of assault on the opposition and civic forces by the Hun Sen Administration, as a warning message for the next international donors conference for Cambodia scheduled to take place in March 2006.
Also another representative of the opposition, Cheam Channy, who spent a year in a military jail after a conviction to seven years for swindle and for conspiracy against the government, was pardoned and was freed on February 6. Sam Rainsy (from his exile in France) and the entire parliamentary group of his party in Cambodia (22 MPs) joined the Transnational Radical Party for the year 2006. The announcement of the amnesty is also a response to an appeal to the King and Prime Minister Hun Sen, launched on February 2, by the radical parliamentarians Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino and co-signed by Bajram Rexhepi, former Prime Minister of Kosovo, Naim Jerliu, Chairman of the Democratic Movement of Kosovo, Gjylnaze Syla, Member of the Parliament of Kosovo, Zlatko Kramaric, liberal member of the Croatian parliament and Giorgio Bogi, Italian member of Parliament from the Democrats of left. In Cambodia, Son Chhay, MP of the Sam Rainsy Party and have been the main actors of the mobilization.
Last January, as a result of a new wave of repressions against opposition's forces, the European Parliament approved almost unanimously an urgent resolution promoted - amongst others –by MEPs Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino of the ALDE group, in order to condemn of assault on the opposition and civic forces by the Hun Sen Administration, as a warning message for the next international donors conference for Cambodia scheduled to take place in March 2006.
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