BREAKING: Adhoc 5 released on bail

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Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon

 

Five current and former employees of human rights group Adhoc were released under court supervision from pre-trial detention tonight, a spokesman for the Phnom Penh Municipal court has confirmed, after languishing in pre-trial detention for more than a year.

 

“The court had issued a court order to end the pre-trail detention of the five people by Judge Theam Chan Piseth today and is now executing the procedure at the prison,” court spokesman Y Rin said.

 

“After the judge has finished the investigation, the judge sent the case for the trail and he ended the pre-trail detention.”

 

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