By Suy Se (AFP)
PHNOM PENH — Prosecutors are appealing against the 30-year jail sentence handed to a former Khmer Rouge prison chief, arguing it is too lenient, Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court announced Monday.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was found guilty last month of war crimes and crimes against humanity for overseeing the mass murder of 15,000 men, women and children at Tuol Sleng prison.
But the tribunal said in a statement that the international and Cambodian co-prosecutors believe his sentence "gives insufficient weight to the gravity of Duch's crimes and his role and his willing participation in those crimes".
They also think that undue weight is placed on mitigating circumstances, it added.
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Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was found guilty last month of war crimes and crimes against humanity for overseeing the mass murder of 15,000 men, women and children at Tuol Sleng prison.
But the tribunal said in a statement that the international and Cambodian co-prosecutors believe his sentence "gives insufficient weight to the gravity of Duch's crimes and his role and his willing participation in those crimes".
They also think that undue weight is placed on mitigating circumstances, it added.
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