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Source: RFA
A Phnom Penh Court prosecutor has on 6th July sent Mu Sochua an ultimatum to pay the 8.5 million riels ($2,200) to the National Treasury or face a jail term, reports Radio Free Asia.
Mr. Sok Roeun, prosecutor for the Phnom Penh Court, sent Mu Sochua an ultimatum on 6th of July and gave her until 16th of July to pay the fine. According to the letter, if she refuses to pay, he will order her arrest.
Mu Sochua, who had just arrived back in Cambodia from abroad on 5th of July, told RFA that she had received the court's letter on the 6th of July, but she steadfastly maintains that she will not pay the fine and is willing to go to jail to show the bias of the court and to prove that it is a political tool of the ruling party. "I leave my fate to the court in order to show that I do not accept the court's bias and that it is a political tool. If we continue to allow ourselves to be the victims like this, when can we reform (the judicial system)?", she said.
Mr. Sok Sam Oeun, director of Cambodia Legal Defenders Project, said, in the past, the government had admitted that the Cambodian courts are not fully independent. He said, however, to show that she respects the rule of laws, Mu Sochua should pay the fine whether she respects the court's decision or not. "But for the rule of laws she has to pay, whether she respects the decision of the court or not. But in order to make (Cambodia) a state of laws, she has to lead by example", he said.
Prof. Surya Subedi, UN Envoy to Cambodia, who has just completed his 10 days visit to Cambodia, has criticised Cambodian judicial system for its lack of independence and its failures to provide justice to the Cambodian population, especially poor people.
Source: RFA
A Phnom Penh Court prosecutor has on 6th July sent Mu Sochua an ultimatum to pay the 8.5 million riels ($2,200) to the National Treasury or face a jail term, reports Radio Free Asia.
Mr. Sok Roeun, prosecutor for the Phnom Penh Court, sent Mu Sochua an ultimatum on 6th of July and gave her until 16th of July to pay the fine. According to the letter, if she refuses to pay, he will order her arrest.
Mu Sochua, who had just arrived back in Cambodia from abroad on 5th of July, told RFA that she had received the court's letter on the 6th of July, but she steadfastly maintains that she will not pay the fine and is willing to go to jail to show the bias of the court and to prove that it is a political tool of the ruling party. "I leave my fate to the court in order to show that I do not accept the court's bias and that it is a political tool. If we continue to allow ourselves to be the victims like this, when can we reform (the judicial system)?", she said.
Mr. Sok Sam Oeun, director of Cambodia Legal Defenders Project, said, in the past, the government had admitted that the Cambodian courts are not fully independent. He said, however, to show that she respects the rule of laws, Mu Sochua should pay the fine whether she respects the court's decision or not. "But for the rule of laws she has to pay, whether she respects the decision of the court or not. But in order to make (Cambodia) a state of laws, she has to lead by example", he said.
Prof. Surya Subedi, UN Envoy to Cambodia, who has just completed his 10 days visit to Cambodia, has criticised Cambodian judicial system for its lack of independence and its failures to provide justice to the Cambodian population, especially poor people.
3 comments:
Mu Sochua is an ordinary person, but she is doing an extraordinary thing. The fight for justice is not for herself a lone but it is for all Khmers.
Please all Khmers inside and outside our country should support her cause.
A person like her only come one every two thousand years. She is a true Khmer heroine.
True Khmer
Sok Sam Oeun has a point, but he forgot that by paying it would mean Mu Sochua is accepting the state of lawlessness in Cambodia. By preparing to go to jail like what she said, she is prepared to suffer and become a martyr in order to make Cambodia a state of laws. I admire her courage.
If you want to reduce the Opposition party's members, you have to do something other than putting people in prison and locking the door. Madame Mu Sochua is innocent.The goverment is better to work for country than worry how to put People who is against the goverment's politic.Where is the real democracy in Cambodia ?
Well, for me,I don't know if I commit a crime to write over here ? I hope not.
S K MONOHA of Cambodia.France
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