Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Licadho Staffer Sentenced to Two Years for Leaflet Distribution


Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Monday, 30 August 2010

The sentencing appeared to be the result of “pressure from politicans or government officials.”
Four men including a human rights worker received lengthy jail sentences in Takeo province Monday, after they were found guilty of distributing leaflets allegedly insulting the former king and the government.

Leang Sokchoeun, a 28-year-old staff member of Licadho, fainted after hearing his guilty verdict and two-year prison sentence. He was taken to the provincial hospital in an ambulance.

Two other men, Thack Vannak, 34, a Vietnamese interpreter; and Thach Le, a 61-year-old motorcycle taxi driver, both received two-year sentences. A fourth man, a monk named Thach Kong Phuong, 34, who remains at large, was sentenced to three years in absentia.
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