Cambodia

August 2005 | Risk Summary

Cambodia's retired king, Norodom Sihanouk, waded into a court row over alleged judicial corruption, by saying that two men jailed for 20 years for the killing of a prominent union leader had been wrongly convicted. The former monarch lent his weight to human rights groups and the United Nations, who have all said that the conviction of two men for the murder of Chea Vichea, head of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia, in January 2004, were unsafe. The handling of the case has raised questions over the fairness of impending trials of former leaders

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