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Phnom Penh - Cambodia's appellate court on Monday postponed hearing the appeal of a two-year jail sentence for opposition leader Sam Rainsy in a dispute over border markers.
Sam Rainsy, in exile in France, was sentenced in January on charges of racial incitement and damaging public property after he uprooted border markers along the Cambodian-Vietnam border last year.
Two villagers were jailed for one year over the same incident.
Opposition parliamentarian Son Chhay said the court was right to postpone the case until August 30 since the villagers' lawyer was out of the country.
He said the outcome of the appeal could be significant since the government is pursuing a separate, but linked, case against Sam Rainsy that could see him jailed for another 18 years over "disinformation" about maps he publicized of the border with Vietnam.
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Sam Rainsy, in exile in France, was sentenced in January on charges of racial incitement and damaging public property after he uprooted border markers along the Cambodian-Vietnam border last year.
Two villagers were jailed for one year over the same incident.
Opposition parliamentarian Son Chhay said the court was right to postpone the case until August 30 since the villagers' lawyer was out of the country.
He said the outcome of the appeal could be significant since the government is pursuing a separate, but linked, case against Sam Rainsy that could see him jailed for another 18 years over "disinformation" about maps he publicized of the border with Vietnam.
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