By Robert Carmichael in Phnom Penh
ABC Radio, Australia
Cambodia's war crimes tribunal (pictured) has dismissed a request to investigate two of its foreign judges, including Australian Rowan Downing, for bias.
The panel of five judges at the joint UN-Cambodian tribunal was forced to investigate an allegation of bias made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in September.
Hun Sen said he knew that some foreign judges and prosecutors were taking instruction from their governments.
Following the claim, lawyers for former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary filed a request last month to investigate Australia's Rowan Downing and the Netherlands' Katinka Lahuis.
In their decision, released on Tuesday, the judges unanimously ruled that the request to investigate their colleagues was inadmissible and unfounded.
The ruling came days after the conclusion of the trial of the first defendant, Comrade Duch, who ran the Khmer Rouge's main execution centre called S-21.
The verdict in the case will be announced early next year.
ABC Radio, Australia
Cambodia's war crimes tribunal (pictured) has dismissed a request to investigate two of its foreign judges, including Australian Rowan Downing, for bias.
The panel of five judges at the joint UN-Cambodian tribunal was forced to investigate an allegation of bias made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in September.
Hun Sen said he knew that some foreign judges and prosecutors were taking instruction from their governments.
Following the claim, lawyers for former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary filed a request last month to investigate Australia's Rowan Downing and the Netherlands' Katinka Lahuis.
In their decision, released on Tuesday, the judges unanimously ruled that the request to investigate their colleagues was inadmissible and unfounded.
The ruling came days after the conclusion of the trial of the first defendant, Comrade Duch, who ran the Khmer Rouge's main execution centre called S-21.
The verdict in the case will be announced early next year.
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