Four defendants were in hiding while dozens of local CNRP supporters gathered for what they said was the first time since the party’s dissolution as the Tbong Khmum Provincial Court on Tuesday sentenced five ex-opposition officials to jail for plotting.
A former Takeo provincial governor and his brother were found guilty on Monday of the murder of the ex-governor’s mistress, sentencing them to 13 and 10 years in prison, respectively, according to a court spokesman.
Observers say three new appeal courts will remain as unjust as the current system unless improvements are made to ensure the judiciary’s fairness and independence.
UPDATED 7:20 p.m. — A lack of trust in the police and courts, scapegoating of “sorcerers” for social and physical ills, and a firm belief that violent actions were justified were among the reasons perpetrators of “popular justice” attacks in Cambodia took the law into their own hands, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
The U.S. says it is “deeply concerned” about the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s decision Wednesday to sentence the translator for a documentary about alleged underage
A group of 50 Cambodian journalists has issued an open letter calling on the Appeal Court to drop charges against the two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporters and release them from judicial supervision when it meets tomorrow.
A policy to rotate judges and other court officials between provinces every four years has done little to tackle the roots of judicial corruption and court pliability in the face of government pressure, according to critics and legal experts.
A Bangkok court will this week hold a hearing to consider whether to accept a class-action lawsuit against the Thailand-based Mitr Phol — the fourth-largest sugar producer in the world — filed by 700 Cambodian families who were declared illegally dispossessed of land by Thailand’s Human Rights Commission.
A group of reporters have been taken to court in Kampot province for clashing with customs officers while filming the movement of goods coming in from Vietnam.
The lawyer for a Cambodian translator on trial for his role in the production of a controversial documentary about alleged underage sex trafficking demanded that
Justice Ministry officials need more room, so “empty public land” will be used to store court documents by filling in another part of Boeng Tamok, one of Phnom Penh’s “last lakes” that feeds hundreds of families and protects the capital from flooding.
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