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| Sam Rainsy, leader of Cambodia’s opposition Sam Rainsy Party, speaks during a campaign rally in Kandal province, Cambodia, July 11, 2008 (Photo: REUTERS) |
Robert Carmichael, Voice of America
Phnom Penh March 01, 2011
Cambodia’s highest court on Tuesday upheld a two-year jail term imposed on the exiled leader of the opposition, Sam Rainsy. The verdict came after he uprooted border markers on the country’s boundary with Vietnam more than a year ago, claiming Cambodian farmers were losing land to their more powerful neighbor.
Judges at the Supreme Court said Tuesday that opposition leader Sam Rainsy must serve the two-year sentence that was handed down last year by a lower court.
Sam Rainsy, who lives in self-imposed exile in France, was convicted of racial incitement and damaging public property in the October 2009 incident on the border with neighboring Vietnam.
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