Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Al Jazeera
The former chief jailer of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge will appeal against his conviction handed down by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal, his lawyer has said.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was sentenced to 35 years in jail earlier this week.
He is the first former Khmer Rouge leader to face trial for war crimes during the group's brutal rule over Cambodia in the 1970s.
Duch ran the S-21 prison where up to 14,000 people were reportedly tortured and killed between 1975 and 1979.
"We will appeal against the [court's] decision," Kar Savuth, Duch's lawyer, told AFP by telephone.
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