Wednesday, May 04, 2011
The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Lawyers for the aging foreign minister of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime have pressed for his release from prison where he is being held pending trial later this year.
Their appeal Wednesday came amid signs that the trial of Ieng Sary and three colleagues by a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal may be its last, with no prospect of trying other suspects.
Ieng Sary’s lawyers argued that his three years of pretrial detention in jail was illegal and he should be transferred to house arrest. A ruling on their appeal will come later.
Court observers such as Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, suggest the tribunal is planning to finish proceedings with the current defendants, rather than extend its net to cover other former Khmer Rouge accused of atrocities.
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