Published: July 5, 2012
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, July 5 (UPI) -- Kaing
Guek Eav (pictured), sentenced to life in prison by a Khmer Rouge tribunal, will
be housed in a specially built cell, Cambodian officials said.
The incarceration details were finalized last week between the
tribunal's prosecutors and the Cambodian Interior Ministry, which is
responsible for the detention of the former Khmer Rouge leader known as
Duch, the Phnom Penh Post reported Wednesday.
A U.N.-backed tribunal trying Cambodia's Khmer Rouge leaders
sentenced Duch, the brutal regime's prison chief, to life imprisonment
in February. Duch was accused of running the S-21 "factory of death"
detention facility where up to 15,000 inmates reportedly were tortured
and executed in Cambodia's "killing fields."
Kuy Bunsorn, director-general of the general department of prisons at
the Ministry of Interior, told the Post the cell at at Kandal
Provincial Prison would be completed before the Khmer New Year.
"We built a separate cell for Duch because we can't keep Duch with
the other prisoners," Bunsorn said. "This is to provide protection and
security for him because he is a Khmer Rouge prisoner, so the crimes he
committed are different from criminal cases or other cases of other
prisoners" at the Kandal prison.
Duch is being held at the on-site detention facility at the tribunal in Choam Chao.
The Post said officials didn't know when Duch would be transferred to the penal facility.
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