A former Cambodian consul general to China was convicted of money laundering Friday morning for purchasing and not declaring a condominium in Phnom Penh, adding to an existing prison sentence for corruption-related offenses.
Newspaper publisher Ros Sokhet appealed his incitement conviction, weeks before he is expected to be released for completing his 18-month prison sentence.
A lawyer representing two former Cambodia Daily reporters was hopeful the Tbong Khmum Appeal Court would uphold a lower court decision to drop incitement charges against them after a prosecutor said there was no new evidence to reinstate the charges.
Kong Chenda and her husband were convicted in 2020 for dealing drugs, but she asked for bail to take care of their young children and her sick mother.
A former Takeo governor and his older brother are appealing a murder conviction at the Supreme Court, where their lawyers claim that evidence presented in the case in fact proved them innocent.
An Interior Ministry employee, jailed for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government with the CNRP, pleaded his innocence on Thursday and reaffirmed his “love” for the government, as a Phnom Penh court resumed a trial against opposition members.
More than 40 defendants linked to the dissolved CNRP were on trial Tuesday morning for incitement and conspiracy, as part of mass trials against members of the opposition that were suspended early this year.
A father-and-son duo faced a retrial Thursday at the Appeal Court for charges of premeditated murder of their neighbor after their prosecutor in a lower court sought harsher punishments against the pair.
Court documents show that Botha was arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport in September 2016 after traveling from Brazil to Cambodia, via Dubai and Thailand. He was found with nearly 600 grams of cocaine in his stomach.
An imprisoned man who has maintained his innocence for nearly a decade after being convicted for the murder of his uncle again denied the charge against him during his retrial Thursday morning at the Appeal Court.
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