Friday, May 21, 2010

Sam Rainsy wins one, loses one at municipal court

Thursday, 20 May 2010
By Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post

PHNOM Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday rejected a request to form a bipartisan committee to review claims of Vietnamese border encroachment, but it has agreed to order a government lawyer to provide more specific details concerning the location of contentious border posts, the lawyer for self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Wednesday.
Choung Choungy, Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, said Wednesday that the court had refused his request to establish a new committee composed of opposition parliamentarians and officials from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
“The court denied my request because the government already has an official border committee, so they did not see the need to establish another committee,” Choung Choungy said.
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