Phnom Penh court charges Ny Chakrya

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Pech Sotheary

A Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor said yesterday that he has decided to charge prominent human rights monitor Ny Chakrya in a case that rights groups have described as a bald-faced attempt to suppress criticism of the Kingdom’s judiciary.

The case stems from two Siem Reap Provincial Court officials – investigating judge Ky Rithy and deputy prosecutor Sok Keo Bandith – who filed a complaint against Chakrya, accusing him of public defamation, acts of slanderous defamation and putting pressure on the court’s jurisdiction after Chakrya conducted two press conferences speaking out on what he characterised as the court’s illegal detention of two villagers involved in a land dispute.

Deputy Phnom Penh prosecutor Seang Sok said yesterday that after reviewing the case, he had decided to lay charges against Chakrya, and had forwarded the case to the investigating judge on Saturday.

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