Hun Sen mistakenly claimed while speaking about peace-building in Myanmar that a jailed Australian economist there had been released. He later acknowledged the error, saying “this confusion came from misinformation I received.”
A prisons deputy director who was accused of taking $71,000 in bribes from a family to find seven police jobs was transferred within the Interior Ministry and made an adviser, as legal proceedings continue.
A video from 2018 about the formal announcement of an opposition movement was presented Thursday as evidence of plotting and incitement.
As a treason trial against former opposition leader Kem Sokha resumed on Wednesday after a delay of nearly two years, lawyers attacked each other over the postponement, while the defendant said he had believed a reconciliation was in the cards.
Less than five months to commune elections, the ruling CPP and minor opposition parties are pointing to agriculture as key planks of their agendas, many echoing a desire to increase investment in farms and “find markets” for exports.
A woman sentenced for 16 years for trafficking women to work in Malaysia appealed her sentence on Tuesday, while a Takeo prosecutor urged the Appeal Court to issue heavier sentences for two men convicted of raping their under nieces.
A two-star police general and two associates who were sentenced to 18-months in prison for having drinks during the Covid-19 lockdown last April pleaded for sentence reductions at the Supreme Court on Monday.
Sam Da, who was convicted for drug possession and dealing, pleaded with the Supreme Court for leniency and asked the high court to consider her living and financial situation at the time of the drug deal.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday presented transcripts extracted from defendants’ private conversations in a plotting and incitement trial against CNRP officials and supporter.
The Supreme Court has asked a lower court to reconsider a seven-year prison sentence handed to a former military police officer who was convicted for killing a person outside a mini-mart in Phnom Penh.
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