Rainsy to seek video audience with court in defamation case

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Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng

 

Self-exiled CNRP president Sam Rainsy yesterday said he would ask the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to allow him to testify via video conference in a defamation case brought by Prime Minister Hun Sen, an idea quickly dismissed by a court official.

 

Rainsy has been summonsed to appear before court on Friday for “slandering” the government, and by extension Hun Sen, after he used social media last month to call murdered political activist Kem Ley’s death a case of “state-backed terrorism”.

 

Taking to Facebook again, Rainsy yesterday said he would like to use videoconferencing to give the “reasons” for his claims, likening his situation to certain witnesses at the Khmer Rouge tribunal who have been allowed to do the same.

 

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