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| In this May 1, 2009 file photo, opposition party leader Sam Raisy, right, claps in front of the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A Cambodian court has sentenced Rainsy in absentia Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, to two years imprisonment for uprooting border markers on the frontier with Vietnam. (Photo: AP) |
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Tuesday, 22 February 2011
“… because if judges make decisions by their own will, they are punished by the government and removed from their positions.”
On the eve of a Supreme Court decision in a criminal case against the country’s main opposition leader, officials for human rights and legal organizations said the judiciary has not emerged as an independent branch of government.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to issue a decision in criminal charges against Sam Rainsy for uprooting markers on the Vietnamese border, for which he received a two-year jail sentence in absentia for the destruction of property and racial incitement.
He is facing another 10-year sentence for publishing a map on his website that purported to show Vietnamese encroachment, which the courts determined was fake and constituted disinformation.
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