- Title: Cambodian court to re-try activist case over sex-trafficking film
- Date: 15th July 2020
- Summary: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (JULY 15, 2020) (REUTERS) POLICE VAN CARRYING LABOUR ACTIVIST RATH ROTT MONY ARRIVING AT THE SUPREME COURT MONY WAVING AND WALKING INTO COURTROOM POLICE VAN LEAVING MEDIA / SECURITY TAKING PEOPLE'S BODY TEMPERATURES AT COURT ENTRANCE SECURITY TAKING PEOPLE'S BODY TEMPERATURES HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND MONY'S LAWYER, YI SOKSAN, WASHING HANDS AND WALKING INTO COURT MEDIA SECURITY MONY WAVING AND WALKING OUT OF COURT AFTER COURT HEARING (SOUNDBITE) (Khmer) HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND MONY'S LAWYER, YI SOKSAN, SAYING: "The supreme court decided that the appeals court trial and its decision was not correct, so the supreme court has turned the case back to the appeals court for a re-trial. So as a human rights activist defending human rights, I think that all level of the courts are doing this perhaps to deny freedom to suspects, particularly my client, because as of now he only has five more months of his two-year jail term to complete. He has not committed any crime at all but the decision today seems to have done damage to my client." BANNER AT ENTRANCE TO THE SUPREME COURT READING (Khmer): "THANKS TO PEACE" / TRAFFIC EXTERIOR OF THE SUPREME COURT/ TRAFFIC
- Embargoed: 29th July 2020 05:42
- Keywords: Cambodia Phom Penh Rath Rott Mony activist court justice rights sex trafficking film trail
- Location: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
- City: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
- Country: Cambodia
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA001CMX51L3
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- Story Text: Cambodia's supreme court on Wednesday (July 15) ordered labour activist Rath Rott Mony to be retried as he nears the end of his original 19-month jail term.
Mony was arrested last year over his role in making a documentary about sex trafficking that angered the Cambodian government, which dismissed it as fake.
"I think that all level of the courts are doing this perhaps to deny freedom to suspects, particularly my client, because as of now he only has five more months of his two-year jail term to complete. He has not committed any crime at all but the decision today seems to have done damage to my client," said Mony's lawyer, Yi Soksan.
The ruling party of Cambodia's Prime Minister, Hun Sen, has waged a crackdown against what it says are critics of the government, including human rights advocates and opposition politicians.
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