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| Chikreng villagers shot by the cops |
Thursday, 03 March 2011
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post
The Appeal Court handed down three-year sentences today to nine people from Siem Reap province’s Chi Kraeng commune for stealing property, while other charges and separate cases remain in connection with an ongoing land dispute.
Taking into account time served since their arrest on March 22, 2009, the court ordered eight villagers to serve an additional eight months and the ninth, Chheng Saroeun, to serve one more year, according to Sam Chetra, a lawyer provided to the villagers by the rights group Licadho.
The Siem Reap provincial court convicted two villagers in October 2009 and sentenced them to one year in jail and fined the other seven.
All remained in prison however while the prosecutor appealed.
A total of 12 villagers remain in prison on various charges in connection with the dispute, which sparked in 2005 and involves 92 hectares of land, 175 families from four villages in Chi Kraeng commune and 44 families in Anlong Samnor commune.
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