Complaint Filed With UN Over Police Shooting of Civilians

10 December 2013
Civil society / Crime and law enforcement / Government / Human rights / International laws and treaties / International relations / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Ministry of Interior / Social development
Chuon Sovann / Eng Sokhom / ICC / International Criminal Court / Ministry of Interior / municipal military police chief Roth Srean / National Police / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Phnom Penh municipal police chief Chuon Sovann / The Hague / U.N.’s human rights office / UN / United Nations

A law student who filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s police and military police chiefs over the fatal shooting of a bystander by authorities during a protest last month took his complaint to the U.N.’s human rights office on Monday. Law student Neang Sokhun, 25, also said that he would next take his complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Mr. Sokhun, who witnessed the clash in the city’s Meanchey district on November 12, said he sent his complaint to the U.N. to seek justice for slain street food vendor Eng Sokhom and others who were wounded when police opened fire on unarmed civilians. …

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