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Nuon Chea appeal dropped after death

Khmer Rouge Brother No. 2 Nuon Chea’s appeal of his genocide conviction has been dropped after he died in hospital aged 93 on Sunday, his lawyer said. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia held the press conference about Mr Chea’s passing away last night at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh.

Khmer Rouge senior leader Nuon Chea dies in hospital

Former senior Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, died in hospital yesterday. Neth Pheaktra, spokesman for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), said that Chea died yesterday evening at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital where he had been hospitalized last month.
Hong Srieng, a former CNRP activist

Wife pleads for Photoshopping activist’s release

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged a former CNRP activist with incitement to discriminate and incitement to commit a felony and placed him in provisional detention. Kuch Kimlong, spokesman of the municipal court, said May Hong Srieng, 40, was charged with two counts incitement.

Three Pursat officials charged with corruption

A Pursat provincial land management director and his two subordinates were charged in the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday for taking bribes to issue construction permits. Kuch Kimlong, spokesman of the municipal court, confirmed that prosecutors charged the department’s director, Liem Bunroeun; deputy Cheang Vuthy; and department official Te Buntheng with misappropriation of public funds.
Heng Sros rides his motorbike across Mondulkiri province.

Environmentalists question whether crackdown will reach illegal logging’s roots

Heng Sros rides his motorbike across Mondulkiri province, through the Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, to the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary, and finally into the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary. Sros, an activist for the Cambodia Human Rights Task Force, hasn’t let up on his investigations on illegal logging, though he says his findings are consistently ignored by authorities.

Nine ‘Obama’ club drug suspects sent to court

The Preah Sihanouk provincial police sent nine Chinese nationals to the provincial court on Monday for alleged involvement in illicit drug distribution at the Obama nightclub in Sihanoukville. Police officials in Preah Sihanouk province raided the Obama nightclub on July 25 and arrested more than 100 Chinese and Cambodian club-goers suspected of drug use, possession, distributing, trafficking and provide a place for drug use.