Monday, 22 September 2008

The provisional detention of Nuon Chea extended another year

Cambodge Soir

21-09-2008

The former “brother n°2” of the Khmer Rouge regime asked to be released, considering his detention to be “illegal”.

The provisional detention of Nuon Chea has been extended another year, stated Helen Jarvis, spokesperson for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, on Friday 9 September, according to a dispatch from the Agence France Presse,Nuon Chea, 82 years old, was arrested on the 19th of September 2007 in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin.

On the 28th of August, the tribunal had refused a request for annulment filed by his lawyers, Son Arun and Michiel Pestman, who asked for certain acts to be removed from the procedure, in particular an audition from 20 September 2007, held while Nuon Chea was only assisted by a Cambodian lawyer.

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