Wednesday, 06 April 2011
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court held a hearing yesterday in a defamation case against opposition leader Sam Rainsy filed by Foreign Minister Hor Namhong despite the absence of both the accused and his lawyer.
The charges were brought under the UNTAC criminal code and stem from comments that Sam Rainsy, president of the eponymous political party, made on April 17, 2008.
According to the 2008 complaint, Sam Rainsy alleged that Hor Namhong headed the Boeung Trabek prison under the Khmer Rouge. Hor Namhong won a similar suit in France in 2008 that levied a symbolic fine on Sam Rainsy for comments in his autobiography.
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