Justice Ministry Won’t Press Court Over Jailed 13
The Ministry of Justice will not press the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to review the case of 13 Boeng Kak residents sentenced to jail last month for demonstrating against a CPP senator’s real estate project, despite asking the court to consider releasing the women. Now that the case has been transferred to the Appeal Court, Bunyai Narin, deputy director general of administration at the Justice Ministry, said it was up to the Municipal Court whether or not to carry out a review. “It is at the court’s discretion,” he said. On Tuesday, Municipal Court Judge Phou Povsun refused to confirm whether he had received the ministry’s letter, saying only that the case had been forwarded on to the Appeal Court earlier that day. …
