A Cambodian looks at a picture of former Khmer Rouge minister Ieng Thirith (AFP, Tang Chhin Sothy)
By Associated Press,
The Washington Post
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia’s U.N.-assisted tribunal ordered Tuesday that a Khmer Rouge defendant earlier ruled unfit to stand trial will remain detained to see if her mental condition improves.
The highest chamber of the tribunal reversed a ruling by junior judges that would have freed 79-year-old Ieng Thirith whose doctors concluded has Alzheimer’s disease. The lower panel had said the illness diminished her mental capacity. Prosecutors had appealed against her release.
The new ruling came during the second week of testimony in the trial of Ieng Thirith’s three co-defendants, who include her husband, Ieng Sary, foreign minister in the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime. Ieng Thirith was social affairs minister.
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