Date Set for Mam Sonando’s Court Hearing
A hearing date has been scheduled next month at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando, who has been detained on charges related to insurrection, his lawyer said yesterday. The trial is set for Sept. 11, Mr. Sonando’s lawyer, Sok Sam Oeun, said yesterday, adding that it was an unusually quick time frame. … The outspoken Mr. Sonando was arrested on July 15 and charged on four counts related to so-called secessionist movement which the government has claimed took place in Kratie earlier this year, and which political observers and rights workers have called a fiction created by the governemnt to justify a mass eviction. …
