A former Radio Free Asia journalist who has been facing an espionage charge for five years begged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to hand back his passport so he can visit his family in the southwestern region of Vietnam known as Kampuchea Krom.
The Supreme Court rejected a motion from Cambodian-American lawyer Seng Chan Theary to release her from prison pending appeals to her June conviction as part of a mass trial against CNRP members.
In 2011, Seng Yean was convicted of bribery and sentenced to jailtime that he never served. Now he wants a clean slate.
Former CNRP commune chief and leaders were sentenced by a Phnom Penh court, while two Thai women appealed sentences for smuggling drugs.
The mastermind of two failed murder attempts on her boyfriend got another sentence reduction by the Supreme Court on Friday — now down from an initial life sentence to seven years in prison.
The Supreme Court heard back-to-back appeals from high-profile cases involving Mother Nature activists, a senior unionist and two co-accused, and a group of activists convicted for a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in October 2020.
A Kratie city military police officer was given bail in a case where he allegedly abused two girls working in his house. A former CNRP official’s plotting conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday.
The mastermind of two failed murder attempts on her boyfriend was back at the Supreme Court on Friday contesting a 15-year sentence handed by the Appeal Court after a reduction on her initial life sentence.
The Supreme Court has upheld an incitement conviction against an opposition activist for a social media post in 2020. The details of the post were not disclosed in the Supreme Court.
A former CNRP official from Kampot wants the Supreme Court to quash a five-year prison sentence she received in 2020 for allegedly supporting the return of Sam Rainsy in November 2019.
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