Court Hears Request to Reinvestigate Slaying of FTU Leader
Chan Sophon, who was found guilty in 2012 of the February 2007 murder of Hy Vuthy, a senior leader of the Free Trade Union (FTU), faced the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday as part of his ongoing effort to have the court reinvestigate the murder and overturn his 18-year sentence. Hy Vuthy, president of the opposition-aligned FTU at the Suntex garment factory on Veng Sreng Street, was gunned down by two men on the back of a motorcycle in the early morning as he returned home from a night shift at the factory. In a decision that rights groups and the FTU itself derided as wrong and politically motivated, the court found Mr. Sophon guilty of the murder of the union official. ... In a decision that rights groups and the FTU itself derided as wrong and politically motivated, the court found Mr. Sophon guilty of the murder of the union official. The court said Tuesday that it would reinvestigate Mr. Sophon’s case, and thus the killing of Hy Vuthy, if it were presented with evidence to support the convict’s claim that he was not in Phnom Penh when the union leader was killed.
Eang Mengleng
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