Prosecutor Files Appeal Against Judges’ ‘Censure’

Andrew Cayley, British co-prosecutor to the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal, greets the crowd during a meeting with local officials and residents in Pailin, (Photo: AP, file photo).

Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Kong Sothanarith
VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh

The judges said Cayley had revealed confidential court information.

International tribunal prosecutor Andrew Cayley has filed an official appeal against investigating judges at the UN-backed court, saying they were not within their right to order him to retract portions of a public statement about a controversial case.

Cayley is at odds with judges Siegried Blunk and You Bunleang after he issued a statement this month claiming they needed to further investigate Case 003, which deals with two unnamed Khmer Rouge leaders.

The investigating judges ordered a retraction of the statement, which named sites that needed to be investigated and urged the judges to directly question the two suspects in the case. The judges said Cayley had revealed confidential court information.

In his May 27 appeal against the order, addressed to the Pre-Trial Chmaber of the court, Cayley said the judges were not within their rights to order the retraction and that they had misinterpreted rules of the court pertaining to his right for public disclosures and the need for court confidentiality.

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