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| SRP MP Mu Sochua |
April 19, 2011
Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
NATIONAL Assembly President Heng Samrin has rejected a request for the restoration of immunity for Sam Rainsy Party parliamentarian Mu Sochua, who was stripped of her immunity in 2009 in connection with a now-resolved legal dispute with Prime Minister Hun Sen.
In response to a letter sent by a group of 17 SRP parliamentarians earlier this month, Heng Samrin said that according to the Kingdom’s criminal procedure code, the assembly needed to wait for permission from the Ministry of Justice before restoring Mu Sochua’s immunity.
This permission, he said, could only come one year after Mu Sochua finished repaying the fine levied in her case, or as early as September this year.
“I would like to tell your excellencies that the assembly does not now have the ability to consider the restoration of Her Excellency Mu Sochua’s immunity because Her Excellency has not received rehabilitation from the court,” Heng Samrin wrote. In January, the Ministry of Justice wrote a letter to the National Assembly stating that Mu Sochua could remain without her parliamentary immunity for up to five years.
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