Showing posts with label Dam Sith's lawsuit case dropped. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Cambodia's descent into dictatorship: Dam Sith's case dropped after his apology and agreement to stop Moneaksekar Khmer publication

Hun Xen agrees to have his lawyer drops the lawsuit against Dam Sith

08 July 2009
Deum Ampil
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy

On 08 July, Dam Sith, editor-in-chief of the Moneaksekar Khmer newspaper, wrote an apology letter to Hun Xen, and he asked the government to withdraw the lawsuit against him from the Phnom Penh municipal court.

According to a Cambodian government source, we learned that Hun Xen received the letter and agreed to have the government lawyer drop this lawsuit case against Dam Sith.