Phnom Penh Monday, 25 April 2011
“These courts are not only unjust for me, but also for thousands of Cambodians who have lost their land, farming and houses because of unjust courts.”
Phnom Penh Municipal Court handed opposition leader Sam Rainsy two more years of jail time Monday, after Cambodia’s foreign minister sued him for defamation.
Sam Rainsy, who lives in exile abroad, is now facing 14 years in jail sentences from a series of criminal suits, rendering him ineligible to partake in national elections in 2013.
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong sued him for defamation and incitement for remarks in a public speech linking the minister to the Khmer Rouge.
Sam Rainsy accused Hor Namhong of being “a former Boeung Trabek prison chief under the Khmer Rouge,” during a remembrance ceremony at the Choeung Ek execution site in 2008.
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