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Source: CEN
Lawyer for Mr. Sam Rainsy, the leader of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), has put forward two proposals to the investigating judge to either create an ad hoc mixed border committee with members from both the opposition SRP and the ruling Cambodian People's Party or drop all charges against his client, reports Cambodian Express News.
Mr. Choung Chou-Ngy, lawyer for Mr. Sam Rainsy (pictured) who was was charged with disinformation and document falsification relating to border issues, said he had put forward these proposals to Investigating Judge Oeung Sieng on 13th April 2010. The first proposal isto request the plantiff, which is the government, to state clearly the coordinates of border posts numbers 184, 185, 186 an 187 located on the border with Vietnam in Chantrea district of Svay Rieng province. The second proposal is to request for the creation of an ad hoc mixed border committee comprising the Investigating Judge, the plaintiff's lawyer, the accused's lawyer, representative of the accused and the plaintiff [government] and, in cooperation from the government permanent Border Commission, travel to the demarcation areas in Chatrea district to physically inspect and to determine whether his client (Rainsy) had alleged in the past were right or wrong.
Mr. Sam Rainsy has been given a hefty fine and sentenced in absentia to two years jail on 27th January 2010 for sabotage and destruction of public property when he led 100 villagers to uproot six wooden border stakes in Chantrea district on 25th October 2009. Shortly after his sentence, he released a series of maps and documents purporting to show widespread Vietnamese encroachments of Cambodia's borders which the government said were fake documents.
Investigating Judge Oeung Sieng said he does not know whether to accept the proposals because the case is still under investigation. Mr. Ky Tek, the lawyer for the government, however, said that the decision of whether to charge or drop all charges against Mr. Sam Rainsy is the right and the previlige of the judge.
Source: CEN
Lawyer for Mr. Sam Rainsy, the leader of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), has put forward two proposals to the investigating judge to either create an ad hoc mixed border committee with members from both the opposition SRP and the ruling Cambodian People's Party or drop all charges against his client, reports Cambodian Express News.
Mr. Choung Chou-Ngy, lawyer for Mr. Sam Rainsy (pictured) who was was charged with disinformation and document falsification relating to border issues, said he had put forward these proposals to Investigating Judge Oeung Sieng on 13th April 2010. The first proposal isto request the plantiff, which is the government, to state clearly the coordinates of border posts numbers 184, 185, 186 an 187 located on the border with Vietnam in Chantrea district of Svay Rieng province. The second proposal is to request for the creation of an ad hoc mixed border committee comprising the Investigating Judge, the plaintiff's lawyer, the accused's lawyer, representative of the accused and the plaintiff [government] and, in cooperation from the government permanent Border Commission, travel to the demarcation areas in Chatrea district to physically inspect and to determine whether his client (Rainsy) had alleged in the past were right or wrong.
Mr. Sam Rainsy has been given a hefty fine and sentenced in absentia to two years jail on 27th January 2010 for sabotage and destruction of public property when he led 100 villagers to uproot six wooden border stakes in Chantrea district on 25th October 2009. Shortly after his sentence, he released a series of maps and documents purporting to show widespread Vietnamese encroachments of Cambodia's borders which the government said were fake documents.
Investigating Judge Oeung Sieng said he does not know whether to accept the proposals because the case is still under investigation. Mr. Ky Tek, the lawyer for the government, however, said that the decision of whether to charge or drop all charges against Mr. Sam Rainsy is the right and the previlige of the judge.
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