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| Former opposition leader Sam Rainsy speaks to the media during a press conference in 2014 in Phnom Penh. Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP |
Supreme Court stands by Rainsy ‘defamation’
Phnom Penh Post | 2 November 2017
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a defamation conviction
against former opposition leader Sam Rainsy filed by National Assembly
President Heng Samrin.
The case stems from a video Rainsy posted on Facebook in November of
2015 depicting the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk along with a text
message accusing the Samrin-led post-Khmer Rouge government of trying
Sihanouk in absentia for treason and sentencing him to death in a show
trial in 1979.
Presiding Judge Khem Pun yesterday said the court was in agreement
with the decisions handed out by the two lower courts, which included
150 million riel (about $37,200) in compensation to be paid to Samrin,
as well as a separate 10 million riel fine to the state.
“The Appeal Court decision is correct and according to legal procedures,” Pun said.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court decision was handed down on July 28,
2016, which was then upheld by the Appeal Court on November 1, 2016,
according to Rainsy’s defence lawyer, Sam Sokong.
Sokong said Rainsy’s team of lawyers boycotted the hearing because
the court refused to postpone the proceedings, as requested by the group
last week.
“Our group of lawyers thinks that verdict was not correct. It does not provide justice to our client,” Sokong said.
Samrin’s lawyer, Ky Tech, could not be reached yesterday.
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But Scam Rainsy must not talk stupid to be sued. He should have learned from Dr. Kem Ley.
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