The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard the case against Ny Chakrya, a former Adhoc official and currently deputy secretary-general of the National Election Committee (NEC) over his allegedly defamatory comments made to the media in May 2015. Chakrya was sentenced by the Phnom Penh municipal court in September 2016 to six months behind bars and ordered to pay a six million riel ($1,250) fine upon being found guilty of three charges – public defamation, acts of slanderous denunciation, and publication of commentaries to influence the judicial process.
The court on Wednesday also delivered suspended five-year sentences to four human rights activists and an official with the country’s National Election Committee (NEC) after convicting them of paying to silence a woman who allegedly had an affair with opposition chief Kem Sokha.
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Mam Sonando, the president of the Beehive Social Democratic Party and a member of the Supreme Consultative Council, yesterday said he will file a defamation lawsuit against exiled former opposition leader Sam Rainsy for criticising the council.
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia has unveiled an ongoing project to build consultation rooms at prisons across the Kingdom in a move welcomed by civil society organizations.https://bit.ly/2NDfdc8;
