Hor Namhong (L) vs. Sam Rainsy (R).Source: Khmer Sthapana newspaper
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The defamation lawsuit that Hor Nam Hong has filed before the French tribunal against Sam Rainsy and his publisher Calmann-Lévy will reach the Paris Appeal Court on 8 October 2009.
Mr Sam Rainsy has been sued in a French court by Mr. Hor Namhong for defamation regarding a public speech he made on 17th April 2008 accusing the latter of being a prison chief of Boeng Trobek Re-Education Camp during the Khmer Rouge regime. The French court found that Sam Rainsy had defamed Mr. Hor Namhong and ordered to him pay fines and compensation to the latter but Mr. Rainsy lodged an appeal against the lower court's decision with the French Appeal Court.
According Mr. Sam Rainsy's camp, there are new developments that French judges in Paris would want to examine. Those developments are related to the works done since the beginning of the year by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh.
Prosecutors, judges and lawyers at the ECCC who are currently dealing with the case of Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, the director of the Tuol Sleng center (S-21), have gained a better understanding of the prison system and the death chain under the Pol Pot regime from 1975 to 1979.
Hor Namhong had admitted to be chief of Boeng Trobek Re-Education Camp, where many people had been sent to their deaths at Tuol Sleng Prison, but he denied any responsibilities related to the deaths of any person at that re-education camp. However, according Mr. Sam Rainsy's camp, Many former prisoners at the Boeng Trabek reeducation camp (B-32), described Hor Nam Hong as a zealous president who denounced a number of prisoners, who eventually tragically ended up at S-21.
Mr. Sam Rainsy has reportedly left for Paris at the weekend in preparation and to attend the hearing and cannot be reached for comments regarding the French Appeal Court hearing and Mr. Yim Sovan, the Sam Rainsy Party spokesman, said he was unaware of the new hearing.
Reported in Khmer by Khmerization
The defamation lawsuit that Hor Nam Hong has filed before the French tribunal against Sam Rainsy and his publisher Calmann-Lévy will reach the Paris Appeal Court on 8 October 2009.
Mr Sam Rainsy has been sued in a French court by Mr. Hor Namhong for defamation regarding a public speech he made on 17th April 2008 accusing the latter of being a prison chief of Boeng Trobek Re-Education Camp during the Khmer Rouge regime. The French court found that Sam Rainsy had defamed Mr. Hor Namhong and ordered to him pay fines and compensation to the latter but Mr. Rainsy lodged an appeal against the lower court's decision with the French Appeal Court.
According Mr. Sam Rainsy's camp, there are new developments that French judges in Paris would want to examine. Those developments are related to the works done since the beginning of the year by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh.
Prosecutors, judges and lawyers at the ECCC who are currently dealing with the case of Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, the director of the Tuol Sleng center (S-21), have gained a better understanding of the prison system and the death chain under the Pol Pot regime from 1975 to 1979.
Hor Namhong had admitted to be chief of Boeng Trobek Re-Education Camp, where many people had been sent to their deaths at Tuol Sleng Prison, but he denied any responsibilities related to the deaths of any person at that re-education camp. However, according Mr. Sam Rainsy's camp, Many former prisoners at the Boeng Trabek reeducation camp (B-32), described Hor Nam Hong as a zealous president who denounced a number of prisoners, who eventually tragically ended up at S-21.
Mr. Sam Rainsy has reportedly left for Paris at the weekend in preparation and to attend the hearing and cannot be reached for comments regarding the French Appeal Court hearing and Mr. Yim Sovan, the Sam Rainsy Party spokesman, said he was unaware of the new hearing.
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