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Source: everyday.com
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has decided to appeal the Svay Rieng Court's verdict which sentenced him in absentia on 27th January to two years jail for uprooting border markers on 25th October 2009, reports everyday.com.
Mr. Choung Chou-Ngy, Mr. Sam Rainsy's defence lawyer, said he had just received a letter from Mr. Sam Rainsy on 24th February asking him to lodge an appeal against the verdict. Mr. Chou-Ngy said he decided to appeal because the court's decision was not just for his client.
Mr. Sam Rainsy, along with 100 villagers, uprooted 6 wooden border markers they said were planted by the Vietnamese authority illegally on Cambodian farmers' rice fields and encroached on Cambodian territorories. Two other villagers were arrested and were currently in jail.
On 26th February, the government lodged another lawsuit against Mr. Sam Rainsy for document forgery and spreading disinformation after he released a series of maps and documents showing Vietnam's encroachments which they government claimed as fake and not true.
Source: everyday.com
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has decided to appeal the Svay Rieng Court's verdict which sentenced him in absentia on 27th January to two years jail for uprooting border markers on 25th October 2009, reports everyday.com.
Mr. Choung Chou-Ngy, Mr. Sam Rainsy's defence lawyer, said he had just received a letter from Mr. Sam Rainsy on 24th February asking him to lodge an appeal against the verdict. Mr. Chou-Ngy said he decided to appeal because the court's decision was not just for his client.
Mr. Sam Rainsy, along with 100 villagers, uprooted 6 wooden border markers they said were planted by the Vietnamese authority illegally on Cambodian farmers' rice fields and encroached on Cambodian territorories. Two other villagers were arrested and were currently in jail.
On 26th February, the government lodged another lawsuit against Mr. Sam Rainsy for document forgery and spreading disinformation after he released a series of maps and documents showing Vietnam's encroachments which they government claimed as fake and not true.
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