A small party politician and seven others were convicted and sentenced to prison for an armed robbery of a popular online seller in 2021.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld guilty verdicts against seven people convicted for attempting to join a 2020 Paris Peace Agreements Day protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh.
A military general has countersued a family for $13,000 following a car crash that police blame him for and which killed the family’s 3-year-old boy.
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.
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