By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
01 October 2009
Svay Rieng provincial court on Thursday ruled to detain an opposition party activist after he allegedly cut the leaves from the palm tree of a neighbor in an argument over land.
Kong An, 59, a member of Svay Teap’s district council and supporter of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party, was charged with destruction of property and put into custody.
A complaint was filed against him in May by Prak Sarom, who is the sister-in-law of provincial judge Pang Samon, the same judge who ordered the detention Thursday.
Pang Samon later declined to comment. Park Sarom could not be reached for comment.
Meas Kheng, deputy provincial head of the Sam Rainsy Party in Svay Rieng, said the jailing was unfair, considering an opposition complaint that a member had been held at gunpoint by a district policeman had been dismissed.
Kong An, 59, a member of Svay Teap’s district council and supporter of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party, was charged with destruction of property and put into custody.
A complaint was filed against him in May by Prak Sarom, who is the sister-in-law of provincial judge Pang Samon, the same judge who ordered the detention Thursday.
Pang Samon later declined to comment. Park Sarom could not be reached for comment.
Meas Kheng, deputy provincial head of the Sam Rainsy Party in Svay Rieng, said the jailing was unfair, considering an opposition complaint that a member had been held at gunpoint by a district policeman had been dismissed.
11 comments:
This is stupid case!
This type of unfair treatment happens every where with SRP members or affiliated. The authority always finds reason to intimidate the opposition members.
What a ruller!!!
Long live SRP!!!
Under the CPP there is no such thing is a conflict on interest.
you don't fuck with the government it is their own problem.
only in Cambodia.....what the!
6:02AM,
You left your comment unfinished. It should be . . .fuck with the government of the corrupted deep to the bone. . .
welcome to scambodia!!!!! only connection and relation count.
Because their boss want them against for each other.
NO shit!
ruled by an outlaw, run by the idiots.
i know, that's what it sounds like. they often forget that it should be about cambodia, not any special group of group, really. some khmer people need to be educated to think differently than the outdated things they learned a long time ago. the world is so changing now, get with the program already. it's good to learn to think outside of the box for a change, really. wake up, people, there are more to cambodia than you and i, really!
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