Yuong Soda has been hiding since he was convicted for incitement in 2021 for posting online that a Vietnamese friendship monument in Pailin threatened Cambodia’s sovereignty.
Five Banteay Meanchey farmers appealed their five-year prison sentences over encroachment of nearly 2,000 hectares at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, though major elements of the case remained unclear even during the appeal.
Despite receiving life sentences, local businessman Thong Sarath and four associates had murder charges dropped by the Appeal Court in 2020, according to proceedings in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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 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.
A former military police officer who is in prison over a fatal shooting at a Phnom Penh mini-mart asked the Supreme Court to reduce his sentence as his lawyer argued he was remorseful and the killing had been unintentional.
A former provincial governor and his ex-provincial police deputy brother have had their 13- and 10-year prison sentences for the murder of a mistress upheld by the Supreme Court, which also upheld an incitement conviction against journalist Ros Sokhet.
Newspaper publisher Ros Sokhet appealed his incitement conviction, weeks before he is expected to be released for completing his 18-month prison sentence.
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.
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