Published on Sep 20, 2011
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - The Cambodian appeal court on Tuesday shaved three years off fugitive opposition leader Sam Rainsy's ten-year prison sentence for publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam.
The leader of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party, who lives in self-imposed exile in Europe, was sentenced in absentia for forging and publishing public documents in September 2010, one of a string of convictions against him.
Cambodia's Court of Appeal cut the term to seven years due to new sentencing guidelines in a penal code that came into force late last December, the government's lawyer Ky Tech told AFP. Prosecutor Ngeth Sarath confirmed the reduction.
Sam Rainsy (pictured) now faces a total of 11 years in prison if he returns to Cambodia, after several convictions that his supporters say are politically motivated.
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