Mar 1, 2011
DPA
Phnom Penh – Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a two-year jail sentence against exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy for tampering with demarcation posts on the border with Vietnam.
The ruling confirmed the judgement of a lower court last year, which convicted Sam Rainsy of racial incitement and damaging public property after he uprooted several border markers.
Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, Choung Chou Ngy, condemned Tuesday’s ruling.
‘It is not fair – I think this is a political case, not a penal case,’ he told the German Press Agency dpa.
Sam Rainsy currently lives in exile in France.
Mu Sochua, a prominent parliamentarian with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), said Tuesday the ruling was predictable since it had come from a judicial system ‘totally shaped to silence the opposition.’
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