Sochua ‘off limits to US Embassy’
Despite multiple requests, the US Embassy has not been given
access to visit dual citizen Mu Sochua since her arrest last Tuesday,
officials said yesterday.
“Consular officers attempted to visit Mu Sochua the evening she was
arrested but were not permitted to see her and multiple requests for
access since her detention at Prey Sar prison have not yet been
granted,” US Embassy spokesman John Simmons told the Post.
According to the Vienna Convention, which Cambodia acceded to in
2006, consular officers “shall have the right to visit a national of the
sending State who is in prison, custody or detention, to converse and
correspond with him and to arrange for his legal representation”.
Court officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.
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