October 19, 2010
AFP
Prosecutors at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Tuesday demanded an increased sentence of life imprisonment for a former Khmer Rouge prison chief who was jailed for 30 years in July.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity for overseeing the mass murder of 15,000 men, women and children at Tuol Sleng prison in the late 1970s.
Duch was initially handed 35 years, but the court reduced the sentence on the grounds that he had been detained illegally for years before the UN-backed tribunal was established.
"We are asking for life imprisonment, to be reduced for mitigating purposes to 45 years," Anees Ahmed, senior assistant co-prosecutor, told AFP after his team submitted their appeal document.
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